Haai,

On Wed, June 6, 2007 17:26, der Mouse wrote:
>>[snip]
>
> I don't know, of course, but I can guess: talking about other
> partitioning schemes necessary for compatability.
>
> Like the MBR partitioning that's necessary for boot disks on i386, like
> the Sun disklabel that's necessary for boot disks on sparc....
>
> 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.

That's perhaps a more concise explanation... :)

> Or have you
> decided that backward compatability doesn't matter?

That matches my impression exactly, I'm afraid...

Baai,

De Zeurkous
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