Subject: Re: GPT support still needed?
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/07/2007 11:21:28
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Jason Thorpe skrev:
> 
> On Jun 6, 2007, at 12:04 AM, De Zeurkous wrote:
> 
>> Wow! We can now name our slice 'NetBSD Disklabel' instead of 169 which
>> implies it? Switch!!11!!!11!
> 
> Uh, no.  There won't be any "NetBSD Disklabel" AT ALL.  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.

What about systems that don't have, care or know about GPT?
Will we keep disklabels there, or do you intend to do some strange 
wrangling at that end instead, to get GPTs in somehow?

	Johnny

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