Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:04:42 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: making gpart default Message-ID: <1B08091F-5807-43C0-AAD5-A693D207BF5E@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20080926215734.GA48113@lpthe.jussieu.fr> References: <20080926215734.GA48113@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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On Sep 26, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Michel Talon wrote: > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> That's why I believe we need to attach real meaning >> to the partition type. We should disallow a newfs_ufs >> on a partition that is not of type freebsd-ufs. We >> should disallow swapon for a partition that is not >> of type freebsd-swap. etc.. > > However at present it is very convenient that one can share the swap > partitions with Linux on a dual boot machine (at the price of running > mkswap in the Linux boot scripts). This is already implemented. > After all you should be able > to do whatever you like with a chunk of your hard disk, for example > cyclic buffers for inn, database space for databases working on > raw disk, etc. space for ZFS which doesn't care about partition type > (i have a ZFS partition which is marked of type Linux fs) and > obviously > swap. You can still do whatever you want with a partition. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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