In article <20070606181414.GD30139@che.ojctech.com>,
David Young  <dyoung@pobox.com> wrote:
>I would like to convert a lot of my systems to wedges, but I am not
>finding documentation on some important aspects.  Any help?
>
>1 Most of my systems grok MBR.  None grok GPT.  How do I put both an
>  MBR and a GPT on the same disk?

You can put a GPT inside an MBR partition.

>2 I've looked in manual pages for mount, fstab, etc., and in
>  /usr/share/examples/, but I have not found the document that tells me
>  how to mount filesystems by, say, GPT label (GUID?).

They get auto-configured to /dev/dk* if you have DKWEDGE_* or you can
use dkctl to add/remove list them.

>3 Does anyone have a plan for uniquely identifying wedges on removable
>  media such as USB / FireWire HDDs and floppy disks, which may or may
>  use a "legacy" partitioning scheme, or no partitioning at all?
>
>  It must help that most HDDs can be identified by a h/w serial number,
>  and many FAT filesystems contain some sort of volume ID?

I don't think we've implemented any of that, but it should be straight-forward.

>4 Is there anything like a roadmap for wedges?

Thorpej should have one.

christos