Subject: Re: NetBSD-specific GPT partition types
To: Jeff Rizzo <riz@tastylime.net>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/27/2007 10:38:04
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 04:21:03PM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> This is a patch to add some netbsd-specific types for use by gpt(8) -
> with the attached patch, I was able to configure an lfs on raidframe,
> with wedges as the components - and all labelled with GPT. I've also
> got another patch (not included here so as to not muddy the waters)
> which add a "-g" flag to "gpt show" to display partition guids - it also
> displays the disk guid.
>
> If nobody has any serious objection, I'd like to commit this in the next
> couple days. It's not particularly intrusive - I think we can wait for
> some of the bigger ideas that were raised in the other thread to be a
> little more fully fleshed out - but I think this is useful in the
> meanwhile, and doesn't conflict with any of those plans.
Looks great to me, Jeff.
Thanks,
Al