From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 13 22:12:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26A4D37B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:12:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4840343ED8 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:12:14 -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 h0E6Bppc003143; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:11:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) To: walt Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Geom disklabel/fdisk issues? From: phk@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:09:49 PST." <3E23554D.4070609@hotmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:11:51 +0100 Message-ID: <3142.1042524711@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3E23554D.4070609@hotmail.com>, walt writes: >phk@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: >> Julian Elischer writes: >> >>>I think that one of the things we need to do is declare a new flag in >>>disklabel that declares that the disklabel has been converted to use >>>relative offsets... > >> Better plan: Abandon BSD labels before disks outgrow them. > >To be replaced by....what? Probably EFI/GPT labels -- 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 freebsd-current" in the body of the message