Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:05:25 +0200 (EET) From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [patch] NetBSD disklabel support for geom_bsd Message-ID: <20060317150052.W74062@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> In-Reply-To: <p0623091ec04061eb7e7f@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20060317012428.N52721@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <p0623091ec04061eb7e7f@[128.113.24.47]>
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Hello! On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Garance A Drosehn wrote: >> 1) NetBSD people extended partition table to 16 entries vs. >> our 8. That's OK, we have place for 22 entries within >> 512-byte sector for disklabel offset 0, and 18 for >> offset 64 bytes (Alpha's case). > > Minor aside: Dragonfly also has 16 entries in their > disklabel. It'd probably be nice if we could recognize > that, but I have no idea of how much work it would be > to implement that. I would say it's "just" a matter of bumping MAXPARTITIONS up. After that, 1st (easy) part of my patch can go away, but 2nd (main part: converting offsets from absolute to slice-relative and removal those "partitions" which are just aliases for our slices) will still stand. As for me, I'm for MAXPARTITIONS bump. Sincerely, Dmitry -- Atlantis ISP, System Administrator e-mail: dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE
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