From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 14 5:37:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F99C37B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 05:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC0B43E97 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 05:37:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9ECbZIw092927; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:37:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: walt Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GEOM question In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Oct 2002 05:31:15 PDT." <3DAAB913.4010407@hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:37:35 +0200 Message-ID: <92926.1034599055@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3DAAB913.4010407@hotmail.com>, walt writes: >Would the GEOM framework make it feasible to use a DOS-extended/logical >partition for a BSD filesystem? This would add a great deal of >flexibility for adding disk space to a full filesystem, just as one >example. We already support that as far as I know, both with and without GEOM -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message