Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:29:55 +0530 From: Manish Jain <jude.obscure@yandex.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: A request for unnested UFS implementation in MBR Message-ID: <98201d37-2d65-34c6-969e-c9649f1a3ab1@yandex.com>
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Hi all, I am a longtime user of FreeBSD, which now serves as my only OS. There is one request I wished to make for FreeBSD filesystems. While UFS implementation under GPT is unnested just as Ext2, the MBR implementation of UFS continues to piggyback on an unnecessary nest (in a BSD slice). Can it not be considered as an alternative to provide a UFS partition (unnested) under MBR too ? Existing users could continue to use the freebsd::freebsd-ufs scheme, while fresh usage could have the alternative of UFS directly recorded in the MBR. I should perhaps note that unlike most users who have shifted to GPT of late, I much prefer MBR because 1) the scheme's design by itself keeps the number of slices/partitions in a disk manageable; and 2) I can use the boot0 manager, my favourite boot manager. Thanks for reading this. Manish Jain
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