From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 10 21:47:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C9F437B406; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:47:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g5B4lVJ09367; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:47:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5B4le13012042; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:47:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5B4lelD012041; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:47:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:47:40 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Statement of architectural direction: disklabel64 / GPT. Message-ID: <20020611044740.GB11905@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <98152.1023733690@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i 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 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