Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:46:29 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, 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: <3839.1035488789@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:34:21 BST." <200210241934.g9OJYLQB046148@dotar.thuvia.org>
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In message <200210241934.g9OJYLQB046148@dotar.thuvia.org>, Mark Valentine write s: >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 > ... > I think green@'s proposal is better. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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