From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 11 1:38:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FA6937B411 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 01:37:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25711 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2002 08:37:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 11 Jun 2002 08:37:16 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx ([206.187.69.211]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5B8bEQ81418; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 04:37:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020610120956.L53004@nexus.root.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 04:37:08 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: David Greenman-Lawrence Subject: Re: Statement of architectural direction: disklabel64 / GPT. Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Jun-2002 David Greenman-Lawrence wrote: >>We will need to support GPT for at least ia64 anyway, and I predict >>that it will sneak into ia32 RSN as well, so this is actually less >>work for us than doing a disklabel64. >> >>Any objections ? > > No objections from me, but what does "GPT" stand for? It's a 3-bit error away from Global Positioning System. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message