On Jun 5, 2007, at 3:31 PM, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Martin Husemann wrote:
>> Fixing remaining issues (like bootloader support) instead and going
>> with gpt and wedges sounds a lot easier to me - and I'm not sure what
>> recursive partitioning would add, feature wise.
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> Pardon my ignorance, but: do we really want to bother with GPT, now  
> that even Apple can boot from systems with an MBR?

Yes.  We aren't doing GPT because of Apple.  We're doing GPT because  
it gives us 64-bit block offsets in the disk label and a much more  
descriptive partition table.  BSD Disklabels just plain stink.

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-- thorpej