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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