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With wedges, we aren't limited to the partition/wedge types that can be=20
encoded as a uint8_t in p_fstype. Do we want to add a centralized list for=
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names?

I ask as I'm working on Apple partition map support for wedges. There are=
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a whole slew of (Apple) partition types we ignored before, because we only=
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had 8 or 16 slots in a disklabel; if the choice is between your /usr file=
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system and a driver from Apple to talk to the disk over firewire, you want=
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to choose the /usr partition. ;-) But now with wedges, we can add wedges=20
for these partitions as doing so won't run us out of room.

My first thought was to map some of the plethora of type names Apple uses=
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into a few well-known names. So "Apple_Driver43" and "Apple_Driver_ATA"=20
and such all become "driver". And "Apple_Patches" becomes "patches". So=20
it'd be nice to have a central list of these names so that other schemes=20
can map their own types to these; to seed the work with common ideas.

Take care,

Bill

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