Peter Stuge wrote:
As for a new standard I think we should start out by evaluating all current disklabel schemes to see what state of the art is, and how we can improve upon it.
I still like Amiga's Rigid Disk Label best. It stores the firmware's filesystem driver for each file in the "partition table" to a partition so the firmware can always read a disk, no matter how new and weird the filesystem is. It also has no limitation on partitions.