Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:47:40 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Statement of architectural direction: disklabel64 / GPT. Message-ID: <20020611044740.GB11905@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206101635150.28471-100000@smtp.gnf.org> References: <98152.1023733690@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206101635150.28471-100000@smtp.gnf.org>
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:36:15PM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > The GPT handles 16k partitions, 64 bit addressing, has decently > > checksummed and redundant meta-data and space for per partition > > meta-data. > > So it has a place to stash data suitable for GEOM mirror partitions and > other "special" things that need to keep some meta-data about their > operations? You have a virtually unlimited supply of partition types. If there's a lot of meta-data to store, you can define a partition type and create a partition for it. The minimum partition size is a sector. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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