Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:55:35 -0700 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>, freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GPT as default? Message-ID: <462928C7.8090400@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <46292461.5090503@samsco.org> References: <52686.1177091835@critter.freebsd.dk> <46292461.5090503@samsco.org>
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Scott Long wrote: > 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. It probably crazy idea, but I wonder if it's feasible to have "mini-GEOM" layer in loader, so that it's possible to use existing GEOM classes codebase there with little or no modifications. -Maxim
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