On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Dan Winship wrote:

> Is there any reason the existing Mac partition map code expects NetBSD
> partitions to be of type APPLE_UNIX_SVR2? Why not make our own
> partition type and then put all the NetBSD-specific disklabel info we
> need into our own custom structure in the pmBootArgs field?

There are two reasons:

1) Historical: this code started out as the partition reading code for
NetBSD/mac68k, and was designed to be compatable with A/UX

2) Compatability: I know mkLinux and I think Linuxppc use these partition
types. I'm not sure what they'd do with other values.

Bob mentioned other utilities which might well get confused with new
values..

What all would we want to add? For FFS, all we're lacking are block and
fragment sizes. cpg would be cool..

I think other fs types, like LFS, probably should get a different fs type
string.

Take care,

Bill