RFC: making gpart default

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:46:17 +0000
"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> mentioned:

> My proposed solution was to try to get the BSD label discontinued
> and rely entirely on the native partitioning on the relevant
> platforms, but that meant dealing with FAT extended partitions and
> going back to libdisk and I couldn't get myself to do that.
> 

Why abandone a well-working paritioning scheme? Granted, it has
some limitations but it was the only working way of getting a
decent partitioning on x86 platfrom until GPT was introduced.
Stripping it out from sysinstall wouldn't be benefitable at all.
Bsdlabels work great in some situations, e.g. I use them for
embedded devices where bios is custom build and can successfully
boot from bsdlabel-partitioned disk.

-- 
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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