From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 30 0:19:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAF7C37B400 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:19:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g0U8JF631048; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:19:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0U8Jfo01173; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:19:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:19:41 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Geom project, limited preview... Message-ID: <20020130001941.A1101@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20020129234225.A981@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <19200.1012377045@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <19200.1012377045@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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