From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 03:23:51 2004 Return-Path: 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 8626A16A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:23:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A47143D2D for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:23:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i8O3NmlO018069; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:23:48 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200409240048.i8O0mVLk065051@apollo.backplane.com> References: <408F11C5.5030403@freebsd.org> <20040428033948.GA7603@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20040921221631.GA14566@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <200409240048.i8O0mVLk065051@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:23:47 -0400 To: Matthew Dillon From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Default support for GPT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:23:51 -0000 At 5:48 PM -0700 9/23/04, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > I considered GPT but I want to have much more control over the > DragonFly 'partitions' then I believe GPT offers. e.g. we need > to be able to uniquely identify partitions in a WAN environment, > store the core RAID topology, and so on and so forth... everything > you need to operate in a clustered environment really has to be > made part of the partition table. What would that mean for people who like to setup multi-boot situations, though? Will dragonfly require that all partitions on a disk be dragonfly-format? Could you go with GPT for the initial partition table, and then store all the extra info that you want at the start of each partition? And as I sit here installing a new machine, I also wonder if you should pick a different partition-type for Dragonfly, just so you don't have to worry about matching future UFS/UFS2 changes. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu