cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_device.c src/sys/sys device.h

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Wed May 16 23:44:18 PDT 2007


:Are you planning on requiring a disklabel on GPT's, or will there be 
:support for direct consumption of these partitions by filesystems and swap?
:
:- Jason

    It looks like it will be possible to treat a GPT table as a disklabel,
    with any recursion handled as slices (like recursive MBRs are handled
    now), so direct consumption should be possible.

    The only issue is that we have a limit of 16 'partitions' verses the
    128 supported by GPT, so that limit will have to be expanded.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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