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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>,
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Subject: Re: GPT as default?
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <f0am4t$mmk$1@sea.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras writes:
> 
>> Currently, the 
>> FreeBSD default is classic BSD partitions on top of MSDOS partitions, 
>> and there are a couple of inconvenient things about this arrangement:
> 
> The BSD partitioning should be discontinued as fast and firmly
> as possible.  By all means go GPT.
> 

An i386/amd64 bootloader needs to be written that can understand GPT.
My understanding is that the ia64 EFI/GPT loader has very few reusable
bits.

Scott