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Date:      Sat, 24 Aug 2002 16:54:33 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom geom_gpt.c 
Message-ID:  <20020824235433.6460D2A7D6@canning.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208241557190.73088-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> 

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Julian Elischer wrote:
> have I got this right....
> 
> ad0a ->ad0p1
> 
> ??
> 
> please give examples....

GPT is the native partitioning scheme on ia64 boxes.  When native, we do not
use disklabel because:
1) GPT has 16384 partitions without any complications, so there is no need
   to subdivide one into freebsd disklabel slices
2) GPT is fully 64 bit LBA
3) disklabel is 32 bit LBA so adding disklabel restricts it to 32 bit (1TB)
   sized chunks

This isn't breaking POLA because it is a new arch witha clean break.

> 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      ...
> 
> this doesn't tell us much...
> 
> 
> >   
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.5       +5 -2      src/sys/geom/geom_gpt.c
> > 
> 

Cheers,
-Peter
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