From owner-cvs-all Tue May 28 14: 8: 8 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E905937B438; Tue, 28 May 2002 14:07:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4SL6iQW004740; Tue, 28 May 2002 23:06:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Wemm Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , 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 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 May 2002 13:58:34 PDT." <20020528205834.568D7380A@overcee.wemm.org> Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 23:06:44 +0200 Message-ID: <4739.1022620004@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message