Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:02:02 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bigger boot block size? Message-ID: <15126.1126375322@phk.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:47:52 MDT." <43231C48.80008@samsco.org>
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In message <43231C48.80008@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes: >> >> Guys, bsdlabel has no future, we need to migrate to something >> that is >> A: 64 capable >> B: supports more than 7/8 partitions >> C: understands that metadata should not be exposed in-band. >> > >Yes, and you've been waving your hands about this for a long time =-) Yeah, well, sorry, but I havn't had enough time myself :-( >GPT is a nice sucessor, but our support for it is not ready for prime >time, IMHO. What is required to actually make the switch: > >1) appropriate support in all stages of the bootloader for i386 and >amd64. >2) appropriate support in sysinstall for all platforms. >3) docs that describe GPT on FreeBSD, how to install a system to it, and >how to upgrade a system to it. >4) visual editor for GPT. You might laugh that bsdlabel/disklabel only >uses vi, but it's worlds better than what the gpt utility provides now. I *love* the bsdlabel $EDITOR use, and would highly recommend that any future tools adopt the principle. I particularly like it because $EDITOR can also be a shell script. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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