Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 04:05:55 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, <cvs-all@freebsd.org>, <cvs-committers@freebsd.org>, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis Message-ID: <20021026035647.H4817-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <17783.1035552121@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200210251307.g9PD7al6069458@dotar.thuvia.org>, Mark Valentine write
> s:
> >I guess we differ here in that I'm saying we *should* hide this implementation
> >detail by default for consistency with other platforms,
>
> You're making quite an assumption here it seems: BSD disklabels may not
> even be present on all platforms, and each partitioning scheme is free
> to choose its own naming.
>
> GPT labels for instance seems to use "${disk}${unit}[sp]%d"
>
> And finally you overlook that we may have to forego both MBR and BSD
> disklabels on any architecture where we want to use moderately large
> storage devices (2^31 * 512 bytes, possibly twice that).
Actually (2^32 * sector_size) for BSD labels, which can easily be 8 times
"that" (8TB for 2^32 sectors of size 2K). The sector size doesn't need
to be physical, so anyone can use 8TB disks now provided they don't use
file systems with a fragment size (or is it a block size?) smaller than 2K.
BSD labels could easily be extended, but we (mostly you) decided not to do
so.
> There simply isn't "any consistency with other platforms" to point to
> here, if we disregard stuff from the antique hardware society.
OtherBSD will no doubt do it differently so we will have an even bigger
mess than now.
Bruce
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