Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:26:27 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: swhetzel@gmail.com, avg@icyb.net.ua, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: another gpt vs mbr (sanity) check Message-ID: <9556ADEF-E6B3-4235-9F17-B7CB5B249BA1@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <E1Noi3w-0000mC-1g@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <E1Noi3w-0000mC-1g@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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On Mar 8, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Pete French wrote: >> The problem the original poster was having is this: >> >> Format drive as GPT >> Re-Format drive as MBR >> >> FreeBSD still sees the drive as GPT instead of MBR. > > Actually his *problem* is that FreeBSD sees the drive > a GPT, but other things now see it as MBR. If everything > saw it the same way there would be no issue, regardless > of what the spec says. But if eveyone sees it one way > and we see it another, thats not very useful, even if > it is strictly correct and all the others are wrong. We're already trying to play nice with mainstream OSes. We've simply reached the point where things ain't simple anymore and we need to be very careful not to break our own operating system. Remember that the PC world has only known about MBR and whatever people have been doing for 30 years suddenly isn't enough anymore because there's such a thing as GPT. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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