Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:34:42 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: David Greenman-Lawrence <dg@root.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Statement of architectural direction: disklabel64 / GPT. Message-ID: <10596.1023737682@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:09:56 PDT." <20020610120956.L53004@nexus.root.com>
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In message <20020610120956.L53004@nexus.root.com>, David Greenman-Lawrence writ es: >>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? GUID Partition Table. See around section 16.2 here: http://developer.intel.com/technology/efi/EFISpec_v102.pdf -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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