Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:23:01 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis Message-ID: <19151.1035559381@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:12:40 BST." <200210251512.g9PFCenT072317@dotar.thuvia.org>
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In message <200210251512.g9PFCenT072317@dotar.thuvia.org>, Mark Valentine write s: >I earlier made the point that if you don't have a BSD disklabel, the >picture doesn't change substantially. The standard BSD device naming >scheme can (and should) still be used. Just how do you intend to use "standard BSD device naming" for a scheme which supports up to 16k partitions ? /dev/da0° /dev/da0± /dev/da0µ /dev/da0¹ /dev/da0² I think not... >> And finally you overlook that we may have to forego both MBR and BSD >> disklabels on any architecture where we want to use moderately large >> storage devices (2^31 * 512 bytes, possibly twice that). > >What is a typical device naming scheme for such an architecture? We don't know yet, but GPT seems like a strong contender. -- 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-arch" in the body of the message
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