Re: [patch] NetBSD disklabel support for geom_bsd

    Hi Dmitry,

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:37:09PM +0200, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Jos Backus wrote:
> >>2) (most important) NetBSD disklabel describes partitions not 
> >>slice-relative
> >>   (like ours), but the whole device-relative. They have no slice 
> >>   devices, so
> >>   their disklabel actually duplicates functionality of device slice
> >>   table, and describes both NetBSD partitions and other slices as 
> >>   partitions.
> >
> >Wouldn't this break the ability to move a FreeBSD partition using a
> >non-FreeBSD aware tool such as Partition Magic?
> 
>   My patch modifies disklabel only for NetBSD partition (type 169),
> and only in memory, not on disk. So it definitely won't affect
> moving any partition using a non-FreeBSD aware tools.

Thanks for clarifying that. I guess I phrased this poorly. I meant to say that
if FreeBSD were to move to the NetBSD model, that would seem  to be one of the
downsides as it must be for NetBSD today. When moving a NetBSD partition, the
label needs to be updated whereas with a FreeBSD partition it does not.

-- 
Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com