Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 23:06:44 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf NOTES files options src/sys/geom geom_gpt.c geom_mbr.c src/sys/sys gpt.h Message-ID: <4739.1022620004@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 May 2002 13:58:34 PDT." <20020528205834.568D7380A@overcee.wemm.org>
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In message <20020528205834.568D7380A@overcee.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes:
>> GPT_ENT_TYPE_FREEBSD
>> FreeBSD slice with disklabel. This is the equivalent of
>> the well-known FreeBSD MBR partition type.
>> GPT_ENT_TYPE_FREEBSD_{SWAP|UFS|UFS2|VINUM}
>> FreeBSD partitions in the context of disklabel. This is
>> speculating on the idea to use the GPT to hold partitions
>> instead if slices and removing the fixed (and low) limits
>> we have on the number of partitions.
>
>We really do not want to put a 32 bit LBA 8-partition disklabel inside a 64
>bit LBA partition layout with a max of 16384 partitions. :-)
I would think not...
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