From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 25 8:23: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8480737B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:23:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFAD43E65 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:23:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9PFN1rF019152; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:23:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mark Valentine Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:12:40 BST." <200210251512.g9PFCenT072317@dotar.thuvia.org> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:23:01 +0200 Message-ID: <19151.1035559381@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 <200210251512.g9PFCenT072317@dotar.thuvia.org>, Mark Valentine write s: >I earlier made the point that if you don't have a BSD disklabel, the >picture doesn't change substantially. The standard BSD device naming >scheme can (and should) still be used. Just how do you intend to use "standard BSD device naming" for a scheme which supports up to 16k partitions ? /dev/da0° /dev/da0± /dev/da0µ /dev/da0¹ /dev/da0² I think not... >> And finally you overlook that we may have to forego both MBR and BSD >> disklabels on any architecture where we want to use moderately large >> storage devices (2^31 * 512 bytes, possibly twice that). > >What is a typical device naming scheme for such an architecture? We don't know yet, but GPT seems like a strong contender. -- 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