On Jun 6, 2007, at 11:47 AM, der Mouse wrote:

>>> 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.)

But your old disks will still work if you have the BSD disklabel wedge  
parser configured (which we will), and you will even be able to edit /  
create BSD disklabels using the new partition editing tool.  But the  
new preferred native format will be GPT.

-- thorpej