Subject: Re: new kpi proposal, sysdisk(9)
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/02/2007 14:53:41
On Dec 30, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> I want conceptual support for overlapping wedges mainly for how MBR  
> disks
> get partitioned. I'd like a wedge for an extended partition, and a  
> wedge
> for the file system there-in and a wedge for the extended partition  
> in the
> extended partition and a wedge for the file system in that and so  
> on. I'd
> like the non-file-system ones as they are what the partitioning  
> tools work
> with.

I specifically do not want a wedge for an MBR extended partition with  
sub-wedges for each nested MBR table.  I view an MBR table "tree" as a  
being a single partition table, conceptually.

-- thorpej