Haai,

On Wed, June 6, 2007 18:11, Bill Stouder-Studenmund wrote:
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> I don't envision a GPT flag day. Mainly as using GPT isn't as incompatible
> and irriversible a thing as "Flag day" implies.

Hm, you have a point...

>
> We are moving (ever so slowly at times) towards wedges. We will flip the
> switch on them at some point, and not go back. However we have wedge
> readers for MBR and raw disklabel disks too. So wedges aren't going to
> trigger a GPT flag day AFAICT. And wedges do work in 4.0, even though they
> aren't default.
>
> Yes, I envision a day after which our tools will default to GPT. But I
> expect there will be some backwards compat available. Like a tool to make
> an MBR for boot partitions or a disklabel for boot partitions. I forsee
> limits on such GPT boot partitions, since you'll need to be able to
> express them in terms of the compat format (either MBR or disklabel).

...still, I would like to see multiple new backends available, like the
updated disklabel we've been talking about. Like I indicated, I don't
expect GPT to last that long. It's too limited for long-term use.

Baai,

De Zeurkous
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Friggin' Machines!

>
> Take care,
>
> Bill
>