Re: [patch] NetBSD disklabel support for geom_bsd

From: Garance A Drosehn <gad_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:56:24 -0500
At 2:34 AM +0200 3/17/06, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
>
>1) NetBSD people extended partition table to 16 entries vs.
>    our 8. That's OK, we have place for 22 entries within
>    512-byte sector for disklabel offset 0, and 18 for
>    offset 64 bytes (Alpha's case).

Minor aside:  Dragonfly also has 16 entries in their
disklabel.  It'd probably be nice if we could recognize
that, but I have no idea of how much work it would be
to implement that.

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