From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 27 0:46:35 2003 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 AFB2237B401; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:46:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAFD543F18; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:46:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0R8kVQl020077; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:46:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Nate Lawson , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.c From: phk@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:35:36 PST." <20030127083536.GA2644@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:46:31 +0100 Message-ID: <20076.1043657191@critter.freebsd.dk> 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 <20030127083536.GA2644@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar write s: For BSD the problem is that the disklabel is inside the partition(s) and that there is a boatload of historical interfaces and conventions. For MBR it is "only" the historical interfaces and conventions which get in the way. As far as I know, GPT does not repeat BSD's mistake of putting the meta-data inside the partitions, so nothing prevents you from creating a (actually two: one for each copy) partitions which map to the area of the disk where the metadata is. You can even do this with the normal slice + hotspot mechanism. And you don't have any historical brain-damage to protect, so you can do it right from the start :-) -- 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