On Jun 7, 2007, at 2:21 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> 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?

...and what systems have, care, or know about 4.4BSD disklabels, yet  
that's what we use currently.

For systems whose firmware doesn't give a flying banana about the  
partition table format, GPT will be just as ignored by the firmware as  
BSD disklabels are.

-- thorpej