Subject: RE: GPT guids
To: Jeff Rizzo <riz@tastylime.net>
From: De Zeurkous <zeurkous@nichten.info>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/16/2007 17:36:15
Haai,

On Sun, December 16, 2007 17:28, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
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> Thoughts?

We had an excellent flame war about this already on tech-kern about half a
year ago -- check the archives. To summarize my position: GPT sucks and we
should just implement some extendable, copy-on-write disklabel format
instead. In fact, that is exactly what I'm going to do with NetNIX.

Baai,

De Zeurkous
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