[patch] NetBSD disklabel support for geom_bsd

Garance A Drosehn gad at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 17 12:56:30 UTC 2006


At 2:34 AM +0200 3/17/06, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote:
>
>1) NetBSD people extended partition table to 16 entries vs.
>    our 8. That's OK, we have place for 22 entries within
>    512-byte sector for disklabel offset 0, and 18 for
>    offset 64 bytes (Alpha's case).

Minor aside:  Dragonfly also has 16 entries in their
disklabel.  It'd probably be nice if we could recognize
that, but I have no idea of how much work it would be
to implement that.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =      gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer               or   gad at FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;             Troy, NY;  USA


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