>> Or, for that matter, the disklabels that will be necessary in order
>> to use a disk on both pre- and post-GPT-flag-day kernels.  Or have
>> you decided that backward compatability doesn't matter?
> Who's talking about a flag day?  Not me.

Ummm...

> Message-Id: <94E9615E-38F9-46D2-8F8A-7F25897EC917@shagadelic.org>
> From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>

> [...] The idea is that NetBSD will use GPT as the NATIVE partitioning
> format.  A BSD disklabel won't be present on the disk in any way,
> shape, or form.

That's the flag day I was talking about: the time when there's no BSD
disklabel on the disk, the backward-incompatible change.  (Okay, "flag
day" is an over-strong term for it, unelss you propose to also get rid
of the BSD-disklabel reader when you get rid of BSD disklabels on the
disks.)

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