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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:26:57 -0700
From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:36:25PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> ... In 5.x, we also
> support the GPT format, which supports up to 64k partitions per disk, but
> I'm not sure that code is enabled on i386 by default, only ia64.  If not,
> we probably should enable it there.

It's not enabled by default.

If there are no objections I'll enable it on i386 and amd64 over the
weekend or so. If people feel we should enable the support on alpha
and sparc64 as well, holler.

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net