Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:36:13 +0300 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> To: lev@FreeBSD.org, 'freebsd-geom' <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gpart: add MBR type !133 (0x85) as alias for EBR (type !5)? Message-ID: <54BD165D.60105@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <54BC1F19.3030109@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 19.01.2015 00:01, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > What do you think about $subj? > Ive encountered several disks which have partition with type 133 and > it it valid EBR, as if it has type 5. > > Wikipedia says, that it is (was?) used by Linux. Also it says, that this type is used for second extended partition chain. This means you can not just add type id to MBR scheme, because this will lead to partition names collisions in GEOM_PART_EBR_COMPAT mode. Anyway we don't handle this correctly, even if you will use 0x05/0x0f for second chain :) -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJUvRZdAAoJEAHF6gQQyKF6Qq8H/1strap9xStNMPouml6yKJjw xWcPlDFxrqd6CXGzx7vNs4e4hA2R/iJPAhtaVbqNcLxdUPDPl+jF78pyVM/CApBn NtL/6rmm22BV7BTIYkoUYmJt1fSuGxX74iiGnLhLuRCMTLnczSQfK21ki/Tat1gd THofTtPUpY5Bs5SJytYxcFU6rP/rpAEqStR7eKbAPNrWCTzpQ/eYPX2SXoTAVnji oDThDGRMRiSzfmWKuXB2idvK1MqC2TQm9cdpg5GnEa0+XbWks+9Th7CGOemMsDNg mBYhQYJMBLKH5xt+6KiaH9R0rjjTKVWkzbxWo72sobfF9bXnAIWO/J0C+DObru8= =jmA4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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