svn commit: r274661 - in head/sys: conf geom/part modules/geom/geom_part/geom_part_bsd

[Warner Losh]

On Nov 19, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov <ae at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 19.11.2014 19:20, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> Probably you need to use basetable->gpt_entries here instead of 
>>> MAXPARTITIONS.
>> 
>> I’m having trouble connecting the dots between GPT and BSDlabels. Why
>> would this field be relevant? Is it just poorly named? MAXPARTITIONS
> 
> gpt_entries isn't related to GPT, it is `geom partition table's` number
> of partitions entries. Each instance of partition table (i.e. geom) can
> have own number of partitions. MBR always has 4, but GPT or BSD can have
> different numbers.

Ah, OK. Thanks for the explanation. I understand. I’ll work up a patch.

Warner
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