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Date:      Sat, 24 Aug 2002 15:53:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom_gpt.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208241551290.73088-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200208242242.g7OMgInd018655@freefall.freebsd.org>

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I completely  fail to see th point of this..
it cerainly breaks POLA

partitions within a BSD label use letters..
this is a HUGE POLA problem.

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> marcel      2002/08/24 15:42:16 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/geom             geom_gpt.c 
>   Log:
>   Use 'p' as the partition specifier instead of 's'. We continue to use
>   's' for compatibility partitions (ie partitions with a BSD disklabel).
>   Partition numbers continue to start with 1.
>   Example /etc/fstab:
>           # Device        Mountpoint      FStype          Options ...
>           /dev/da0p1      /efi            msdos           rw      ...
>           /dev/da0p2      /               ufs             rw      ...
>           /dev/da0p3      none            swap            sw      ...
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.5       +5 -2      src/sys/geom/geom_gpt.c
> 


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