Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:25:44 +0400 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Subject: Re: RFC: making gpart default Message-ID: <20081021122544.2cf1eb1a.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1896.1222371977@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <57809A37-B81C-4F50-A418-CD9303F06B72@mac.com> <1896.1222371977@critter.freebsd.dk>
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--Signature=_Tue__21_Oct_2008_12_25_44_+0400_VYVKjI.06Nrmie1m Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:46:17 +0000 "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> mentioned: > My proposed solution was to try to get the BSD label discontinued > and rely entirely on the native partitioning on the relevant > platforms, but that meant dealing with FAT extended partitions and > going back to libdisk and I couldn't get myself to do that. >=20 Why abandone a well-working paritioning scheme? Granted, it has some limitations but it was the only working way of getting a decent partitioning on x86 platfrom until GPT was introduced. Stripping it out from sysinstall wouldn't be benefitable at all. Bsdlabels work great in some situations, e.g. I use them for embedded devices where bios is custom build and can successfully boot from bsdlabel-partitioned disk. --=20 Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE --Signature=_Tue__21_Oct_2008_12_25_44_+0400_VYVKjI.06Nrmie1m Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkj9kggACgkQK/VZk+smlYHRjgCfYv3HkP2ingKNy76K0eW3B+F5 //sAn3O/f81mYUVrqXL70HEkuwfnT51I =KjqO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Tue__21_Oct_2008_12_25_44_+0400_VYVKjI.06Nrmie1m--
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