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Date:      Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:56:24 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [patch] NetBSD disklabel support for geom_bsd
Message-ID:  <p0623091ec04061eb7e7f@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20060317012428.N52721@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>
References:  <20060317012428.N52721@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>

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At 2:34 AM +0200 3/17/06, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
>
>1) NetBSD people extended partition table to 16 entries vs.
>    our 8. That's OK, we have place for 22 entries within
>    512-byte sector for disklabel offset 0, and 18 for
>    offset 64 bytes (Alpha's case).

Minor aside:  Dragonfly also has 16 entries in their
disklabel.  It'd probably be nice if we could recognize
that, but I have no idea of how much work it would be
to implement that.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn     =      gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad@FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA



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