Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:21:53 +0100 From: Martin <nakal@web.de> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GEOM_PART: a quick update on logical partitions Message-ID: <20090203082153.565746e2@zelda.local> In-Reply-To: <FCA8C5E4-BC41-4711-9EBC-CD692144F6B8@mac.com> References: <FCA8C5E4-BC41-4711-9EBC-CD692144F6B8@mac.com>
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Am Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:16:53 -0800 schrieb Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>: > /dev/da0s2.00000000 > /dev/da0s2.0834F7A0 > /dev/da0s5 -> /dev/da0s2.00000000 > /dev/da0s6 -> /dev/da0s2.0834F7A0 Hi. As far as I remember, the old MS-DOS scheme for partitioning (we have GPT now ;) that I am happy with) implements these logical partitions as a linked list. Why not have a simple index pointing to the list entry? Something like this: /dev/da0s2.1 /dev/da0s2.2 Might be starting with 1 or perhaps 0. Second thing is, why do you need something like "s5"? I don't like these symlinks, because I don't see how you want to support something like ".eli" oder ".eli.journal" etc. -- Martin
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