From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 24 12:46:34 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6409337B401; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:46:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64DB343E3B; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:46:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9OJkTrF003840; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:46:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mark Valentine Cc: Bruce Evans , Bakul Shah , Takahashi Yoshihiro , 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 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:34:21 BST." <200210241934.g9OJYLQB046148@dotar.thuvia.org> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:46:29 +0200 Message-ID: <3839.1035488789@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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