From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jul 7 21:46:52 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C57FC102ED03 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2018 21:46:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wr1-x436.google.com (mail-wr1-x436.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::436]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48D388DE48 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2018 21:46:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by mail-wr1-x436.google.com with SMTP id r16-v6so7255065wrt.11 for ; Sat, 07 Jul 2018 14:46:52 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CnQZScDA+aFLcYCs+AOpOtd/yXyglA+WUWbscR26KAk=; b=dTnq/zC061X6yFNL4pNOdH+0Z/9HRJrHZQxbywwKEcv8Sg1pRvopBLlEIU6kCAYoFJ z0U3s36Rt/pld1tgNx84zpxMKA6XZ3ei1i7pNvhoLCBJIZWkkzMTA08ACFvzZplBmJga YM4G6fijEXo9B/SLuWLYgzGvdtWPZ8KprKqRplcWom35pHkeXbugNuKmbNWhlB7LmKoT xY2j+yteZDUQtaBtOdV8DNwZclu7nwg+qasT1R89IcGHw8IiJCuFkkw5L8h4aWrOi7H8 U4roBp/40tOq3gWWRYd3OxKgzG66GyvDLEDlUmYFbJlWQT5CCDGTNNszsi0qLgVMnzGw kZWA== X-Gm-Message-State: APt69E1m2RBpZz+bYJyFRZ91gIyDo4zUyDzQe1ZZfEv2tvBd0bSz8hFa lxRF1oJ7W3JZ/u4IpoSreS+hqg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AAOMgpcuY/01/tK85I3hQbGs/zVI/lEUoPOpcBtBrdd5VewgBKFGO/GW8TsXg4+oiaTbnRXDqaWA1A== X-Received: by 2002:adf:ecc6:: with SMTP id s6-v6mr11519091wro.160.1531000010755; Sat, 07 Jul 2018 14:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com ([2.222.27.178]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 38-v6sm2699397wrm.15.2018.07.07.14.46.49 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Sat, 07 Jul 2018 14:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 22:46:48 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A request for unnested UFS implementation in MBR Message-ID: <20180707224648.5187be22@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: References: <98201d37-2d65-34c6-969e-c9649f1a3ab1@yandex.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 21:46:53 -0000 On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 02:20:56 +0530 Manish Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I made a request for FreeBSD UFS filesystem to the freebsd-fs list. > Just for opinions on this list, I am forwarding that request > underneath. > > Tx > Manish Jain > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: A request for unnested UFS implementation in MBR > Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:29:55 +0530 > From: Manish Jain > To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org > > Hi all, > > I am a longtime user of FreeBSD, which now serves as my only OS. > > There is one request I wished to make for FreeBSD filesystems. While > UFS implementation under GPT is unnested just as Ext2, the MBR > implementation of UFS continues to piggyback on an unnecessary nest > (in a BSD slice). > > Can it not be considered as an alternative to provide a UFS partition > (unnested) under MBR too ? You can put UFS on an MBR partition if you want to.