In message <462928C7.8090400_at_FreeBSD.org>, Maxim Sobolev writes: >Scott Long wrote: >> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> In message <f0am4t$mmk$1_at_sea.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras writes: >>> >>>> Currently, the FreeBSD default is classic BSD partitions on top of >>>> MSDOS partitions, and there are a couple of inconvenient things about >>>> this arrangement: >>> >>> The BSD partitioning should be discontinued as fast and firmly >>> as possible. By all means go GPT. >>> >> >> An i386/amd64 bootloader needs to be written that can understand GPT. >> My understanding is that the ia64 EFI/GPT loader has very few reusable >> bits. > >It probably crazy idea, but I wonder if it's feasible to have >"mini-GEOM" layer in loader, so that it's possible to use existing GEOM >classes codebase there with little or no modifications. That's actually an interesting idea... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Sat Apr 21 2007 - 04:49:45 UTC
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