From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 22 17:15:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FD7B16A402 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:15:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1879413C4C4 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:15:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HffeQ-0008DW-CG for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:15:02 +0200 Received: from 89-172-244-220.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([89.172.244.220]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:15:02 +0200 Received: from ivoras by 89-172-244-220.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:15:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:14:37 +0200 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <86wt076k7u.fsf@dwp.des.no> <619464E1-1CB4-4CFC-9ECF-7FC90DC24A20@mac.com> <863b2u18hz.fsf@dwp.des.no> <4629C2FE.9030301@samsco.org> <91BC1CF6-6C72-4263-A99A-C24FC209586E@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigA686FCCD6D44C892E2D96FB1" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89-172-244-220.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 Sender: news Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT as default? 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: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:15:20 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigA686FCCD6D44C892E2D96FB1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > GPT (like APM) has labels, which we should propagate. It's not a > priority for me, but I presume that it shouldn't be too difficult > to interface with geom_label. No, in this case geom_part should export the labels - because it reads and handles the partition geoms. This would probably require some smart handling, such as exporting both /dev/xxxp0 and /dev/gpt/guid, and then when one of these is opened, kill (remove from /dev) the other. >> Alternative is to use GUIDs, like some Linuxes do, so we have entries >> like /dev/gpt/38a52be4-9352-453e-af97-5c3b448652f0 >=20 > I've thought about that too, but again it's not a priority. It takes > me long enough as it is to adopt the new world order that other > features have to wait :-) Ok. Are you interested in finishing the remaining bits for GPT soon-ish? = :) --------------enigA686FCCD6D44C892E2D96FB1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGK5f9ldnAQVacBcgRAjF3AJwNNXydF0C3EZXthnauA2ipBeUxLQCgyBUR g/lhwJw2Ku29cQ65Gqm/Ulw= =nfb0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA686FCCD6D44C892E2D96FB1--