A request for unnested UFS implementation in MBR

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On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 02:20:56 +0530
Manish Jain wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I made a request for FreeBSD UFS filesystem to the freebsd-fs list.
> Just for opinions on this list, I am forwarding that request
> underneath.
> 
> Tx
> Manish Jain
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: A request for unnested UFS implementation in MBR
> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:29:55 +0530
> From: Manish Jain <jude.obscure at yandex.com>
> To: freebsd-fs at freebsd.org
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am a longtime user of FreeBSD, which now serves as my only OS.
> 
> There is one request I wished to make for FreeBSD filesystems. While
> UFS implementation under GPT is unnested just as Ext2, the MBR 
> implementation of UFS continues to piggyback on an unnecessary nest
> (in a BSD slice).
> 
> Can it not be considered as an alternative to provide a UFS partition 
> (unnested) under MBR too ?

You can put UFS on an MBR partition if you want to.