wedge auto-discovery methods (DKWEDGE_METHOD_RDB)

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:23:35PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:55:57PM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> > I've been working on various things lately to improve the state of
> > wedges and wedge-related things - one of the (valid) complaints is that
> > there is no way to 'nail down' wedge configuration currently.  With the
> > attached patch, however, one can specify the wedge's *name* to mount
> > from.  With the current DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER options, the name is set
> > according to the underlying disk-labelling method:
> > 
> > DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT:  copied from the user-supplied label if it exists,
> > the partition GUID if not
> > DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL:  set to the BSD disklabel partition name (e.g.
> > "wd0a", "sd1g")
> > DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR: set to a bsd-style partition name beginning with the
> > 'e' partition - up to 4 per disk (e.g., "wd0e" through "wd0h")
> 
> Guess I need to write DKWEDGE_METHOD_RDB (for Amiga) finally; Amiga
> partitions are named, too.

Yes, please.  We could use a wedge discovery method for Apple Partition
Maps (terminology?), too.  What else?

Dave

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