Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:34:21 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c Message-ID: <200210241934.g9OJYLQB046148@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: <mailpost.1035484385.44597@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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> From: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
> Date: Thu 24 Oct, 2002
> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c
> Please stop the FUD Bruce.
I think it's a real issue. One of the first things I do on some of my
systems after installation is delete the unnecessary encoding of the
partition/slice/whatever number in /etc/fstab, after being inconvenienced
one two many times by that number changing from under me due to the
activity of non-FreeBSD stuff.
> First of all, this is no longer architecture dependent. You can
> use MBR's on your sparc64 if you for some reason feel like it.
That's all very well, but it doesn't mean that DOS-style partition
numbers have to be forced on the vast majority of people for whom
they are irrelevant (i.e. everyone who has no more than one BSD
disklabel on a disk).
If you want to replace the BSD disklabel with another partitioning scheme,
fair enough, but why retain two levels of partitioning in that case (except
where required for compatibilty)?
OK, the current notation isn't very elegant for the obscure case of more
than 26 partitions on a disk, but I can envisage a new partition numbering
scheme working alongside the existing ones for compatibility, e.g. map as
follows:
da0a -> da0p0
da0b -> da0p1
da0c -> da0
da0d -> da0p2
da0e -> da0p3
...
Cheers,
Mark.
--
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