From owner-cvs-all Tue May 28 14:51:58 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1531E37B40D; Tue, 28 May 2002 14:51:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id g4SLpeZ61728; Tue, 28 May 2002 14:51:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 14:51:39 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Peter Wemm Cc: 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: <20020528145139.A61706@kayak.xcllnt.net> References: <200205280904.g4S94nu58457@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020528205834.568D7380A@overcee.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020528205834.568D7380A@overcee.wemm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i 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, May 28, 2002 at 01:58:34PM -0700, 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. :-) It's mostly for those who like to relife the old days... oh, and for migrating a MBR into a GPT of course :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message