On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:47:06PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > 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:

I don't know that this will be true for all platforms.  I don't see
everything switching to GPT as the default & native format, but I do
expect to see support for recognizing GPT to be at least optionally
present for most (or even all) ports.

As you mention, there are some ports that need a native disklabel
format (or some sort) to boot.  That and supporting legacy systems
will prevent the disklabel code from going away for a long time, if
ever.

-allen

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