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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:09:56 -0700
From: David Greenman-Lawrence <dg@root.com>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Statement of architectural direction: disklabel64 / GPT.
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>We will need to support GPT for at least ia64 anyway, and I predict
>that it will sneak into ia32 RSN as well, so this is actually less
>work for us than doing a disklabel64.
>
>Any objections ?

   No objections from me, but what does "GPT" stand for?

-DG

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