From owner-cvs-all Tue May 28 13:59: 6 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from evilpete.dyndns.org (12-232-26-46.client.attbi.com [12.232.26.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0EC37B409; Tue, 28 May 2002 13:58:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.wemm.org ([10.0.0.3]) by evilpete.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4SKwY160675; Tue, 28 May 2002 13:58:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 568D7380A; Tue, 28 May 2002 13:58:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf NOTES files options src/sys/geom geom_gpt.c geom_mbr.c src/sys/sys gpt.h In-Reply-To: <200205280904.g4S94nu58457@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:58:34 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020528205834.568D7380A@overcee.wemm.org> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Modified files: > sys/conf NOTES files options > sys/geom geom_mbr.c > Added files: > sys/geom geom_gpt.c > sys/sys gpt.h > Log: [..] > GPT_ENT_TYPE_FREEBSD > FreeBSD slice with disklabel. This is the equivalent of > the well-known FreeBSD MBR partition type. > GPT_ENT_TYPE_FREEBSD_{SWAP|UFS|UFS2|VINUM} > FreeBSD partitions in the context of disklabel. This is > speculating on the idea to use the GPT to hold partitions > instead if slices and removing the fixed (and low) limits > we have on the number of partitions. We really do not want to put a 32 bit LBA 8-partition disklabel inside a 64 bit LBA partition layout with a max of 16384 partitions. :-) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message