Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:36:49 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT as default? Message-ID: <46292461.5090503@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <52686.1177091835@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <52686.1177091835@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <f0am4t$mmk$1@sea.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras writes: > >> Currently, the >> FreeBSD default is classic BSD partitions on top of MSDOS partitions, >> and there are a couple of inconvenient things about this arrangement: > > The BSD partitioning should be discontinued as fast and firmly > as possible. By all means go GPT. > An i386/amd64 bootloader needs to be written that can understand GPT. My understanding is that the ia64 EFI/GPT loader has very few reusable bits. Scott
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