From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Jul 7 22:00:46 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F6D8103014F for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2018 22:00:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jude.obscure@yandex.com) Received: from forward105j.mail.yandex.net (forward105j.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:801:2::108]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "forwards.mail.yandex.net", Issuer "Yandex CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CDED28E6E8 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2018 22:00:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jude.obscure@yandex.com) Received: from mxback17j.mail.yandex.net (mxback17j.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1619::93]) by forward105j.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 85B2A181739; Sun, 8 Jul 2018 01:00:34 +0300 (MSK) Received: from smtp3o.mail.yandex.net (smtp3o.mail.yandex.net [2a02:6b8:0:1a2d::27]) by mxback17j.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTP id zqdMoLWete-0YS4JM1c; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 01:00:34 +0300 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.com; s=mail; t=1531000834; bh=rScwrN0adjivUYowgBh+iU76OKn0vO7BXydbBpVjgmU=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Message-ID:Date:In-Reply-To; b=GClyHY3o0Gl27ED3YH2m9d/nkQaAXm2RAlI/L6L/EXD4oIv+AWElwxWuhUSFBAJe5 eNcnYdjSAvBlzBZMdkDlcrq7qbVKtqp7NHkfPPLhABE1rI4KNLceqljWz39YF7E6KZ JbW+YRszQ64dcXFCM16fUV+3o6VYa1IiUHIYc8C8= Received: by smtp3o.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id UwyHo4LRQz-0W18KpgM; Sun, 08 Jul 2018 01:00:33 +0300 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.com; s=mail; t=1531000834; bh=rScwrN0adjivUYowgBh+iU76OKn0vO7BXydbBpVjgmU=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Message-ID:Date:In-Reply-To; b=GClyHY3o0Gl27ED3YH2m9d/nkQaAXm2RAlI/L6L/EXD4oIv+AWElwxWuhUSFBAJe5 eNcnYdjSAvBlzBZMdkDlcrq7qbVKtqp7NHkfPPLhABE1rI4KNLceqljWz39YF7E6KZ JbW+YRszQ64dcXFCM16fUV+3o6VYa1IiUHIYc8C8= Authentication-Results: smtp3o.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.com Subject: Re: A request for unnested UFS implementation in MBR To: RW , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <98201d37-2d65-34c6-969e-c9649f1a3ab1@yandex.com> <20180707224648.5187be22@gumby.homeunix.com> From: Manish Jain Message-ID: <0753eec0-674f-842f-2dae-c8405b004dc1@yandex.com> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 03:28:30 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180707224648.5187be22@gumby.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 22:00:46 -0000 On 07/08/18 03:16, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 02:20:56 +0530 > Manish Jain wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I made a request for FreeBSD UFS filesystem to the freebsd-fs list. >> Just for opinions on this list, I am forwarding that request >> underneath. >> >> Tx >> Manish Jain >> >> >> -------- Forwarded Message -------- >> Subject: A request for unnested UFS implementation in MBR >> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:29:55 +0530 >> From: Manish Jain >> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org >> >> Hi all, >> >> I am a longtime user of FreeBSD, which now serves as my only OS. >> >> There is one request I wished to make for FreeBSD filesystems. While >> UFS implementation under GPT is unnested just as Ext2, the MBR >> implementation of UFS continues to piggyback on an unnecessary nest >> (in a BSD slice). >> >> Can it not be considered as an alternative to provide a UFS partition >> (unnested) under MBR too ? > > You can put UFS on an MBR partition if you want to. How ? Can you give me the gpart command for that ? Remember, the command must put the UFS partition directly into the MBR. Not first into a BSD nest. Tx MJ