On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Martin <nakal_at_web.de> wrote: > Am Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:16:53 -0800 > schrieb Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt_at_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. I'm not happy with the symlinks either. When someone is manipulating a partition table she should be able to live with the consequences. I would rather go for the UUID in UFS header approach if there is enough room. BTW I implemented GPT UUID glabels a while ago please see: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=128398Received on Tue Feb 03 2009 - 11:22:56 UTC
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