From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 00:30:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F4FF106566B for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 00:30:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout020.mac.com (asmtpout020.mac.com [17.148.16.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7971B8FC12 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 00:30:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from srangarajan-t411.jnpr.net (natint3.juniper.net [66.129.224.36]) by asmtp020.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KEI00863MQFSJ50@asmtp020.mac.com> for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:30:16 -0800 (PST) Message-id: From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Martin In-reply-to: <20090204004534.11ccca19@zelda.local> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:30:14 -0800 References: <20090203082153.565746e2@zelda.local> <20090204004534.11ccca19@zelda.local> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: GEOM_PART: a quick update on logical partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:30:20 -0000 On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Martin wrote: > Am Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:15:50 -0800 > schrieb Marcel Moolenaar : > >> What happens if you add a partition to the head of the list? > > Well, I would never do this, because usually this creates mess with > drive letters on MS-DOS and MS-Windows. I don't see a mess with XP. I can easily remove the first logical partition and then fill the space again... > Then, it is quite unusual to insert a new logical partition and copy > all entries in the list one place down. What do you mean copy? > First because people usually > allocate the logical partitions from the start of the "extended > partition" container and move on till it's fully allocated. Sure, but you can remove any logical partition in any order, which means that subsequent adds can also be in any order... > Btw, the entries should be sorted to avoid problems with older > systems. > I remember that win95-fdisk will destroy your whole partition table, > if > you don't sort it. But this is perhaps not that important here. > >>> Second thing is, why do you need something like "s5"? >> >> That's the how logical partitions are named in 7.x > > I understand it is for compatibility, but the softlinks may introduce > new issues, mostly with all the nice geom features. That's why I tried > to ask about how you would support the suffixes that geom modules > automatically create? Would it still work? Yes, but those will be using the "fixed" names, not the softlinks. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com