Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:19:41 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Geom project, limited preview... Message-ID: <20020130001941.A1101@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <19200.1012377045@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20020129234225.A981@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <19200.1012377045@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:50:45AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > I have not implemented this yet: my idea was that each method would > have a hardcoded priority number and that they would get a chance > to bite in priority order, that should be suffice for this. Agreed. > Needless to say, the "taste" routine is able to examine the local > surroundings in detail, so for instance we can make the MBR look if > GPT already found this particular node and if so just give up. Hmmm... context sensitivity always messes up a good, clean design. Maybe a "bite and swallow" approach would be acceptable: Any medium that has a detected partitioning is blocked from further examination? In don't know to what extend this would work for nested partitions within Geom (if it would work at all)... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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