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Subject: Re: GEOM_PART: a quick update on logical partitions
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Am Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:16:53 -0800
schrieb Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>:

> 	/dev/da0s2.00000000
> 	/dev/da0s2.0834F7A0
> 	/dev/da0s5 -> /dev/da0s2.00000000
> 	/dev/da0s6 -> /dev/da0s2.0834F7A0

Hi.

As far as I remember, the old MS-DOS scheme for partitioning
(we have GPT now ;) that I am happy with) implements these logical
partitions as a linked list. Why not have a simple index pointing to
the list entry?

Something like this:

/dev/da0s2.1
/dev/da0s2.2

Might be starting with 1 or perhaps 0.


Second thing is, why do you need something like "s5"? I don't like
these symlinks, because I don't see how you want to support something
like ".eli" oder ".eli.journal" etc.

--
Martin