From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 10 12:36:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A954337B403 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:36:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5AJYgV7010597; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:34:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: David Greenman-Lawrence Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Statement of architectural direction: disklabel64 / GPT. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:09:56 PDT." <20020610120956.L53004@nexus.root.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:34:42 +0200 Message-ID: <10596.1023737682@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp 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 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