From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 02:04:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75FEB1065689 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:04:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout019.mac.com (asmtpout019.mac.com [17.148.16.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F178FC16 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:04:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from [192.168.1.95] (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by asmtp019.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K7U00HH80FV7180@asmtp019.mac.com> for arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:04:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <1B08091F-5807-43C0-AAD5-A693D207BF5E@mac.com> From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Michel Talon In-reply-to: <20080926215734.GA48113@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:04:42 -0700 References: <20080926215734.GA48113@lpthe.jussieu.fr> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: making gpart default X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:04:44 -0000 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