From owner-cvs-all Tue May 28 14:19:53 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C102937B40A; Tue, 28 May 2002 14:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA18867; Wed, 29 May 2002 07:19:36 +1000 Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 07:22:55 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Peter Wemm Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , , 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: <20020528205834.568D7380A@overcee.wemm.org> Message-ID: <20020529071953.D22842-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 28 May 2002, Peter Wemm wrote: > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > Modified files: > > sys/conf NOTES files options > > sys/geom geom_mbr.c > > Added files: > > sys/geom geom_gpt.c > > sys/sys gpt.h > > Log: > [..] > > 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. :-) Excellent. We can kill the disklabel and complications to manage layered labels, and have only slices. I intended to deprecate labels but never got around to it. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message