GEOM_PART: a quick update on logical partitions

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Feb 2, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Martin wrote:

> Am Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:16:53 -0800
> schrieb Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt at mac.com>:
>
>> 	/dev/da0s2.00000000
>> 	/dev/da0s2.0834F7A0
>> 	/dev/da0s5 -> /dev/da0s2.00000000
>> 	/dev/da0s6 -> /dev/da0s2.0834F7A0
>
> Hi.
>
> As far as I remember, the old MS-DOS scheme for partitioning
> (we have GPT now ;) that I am happy with) implements these logical
> partitions as a linked list. Why not have a simple index pointing to
> the list entry?
>
> Something like this:
>
> /dev/da0s2.1
> /dev/da0s2.2
>
> Might be starting with 1 or perhaps 0.

What happens if you add a partition to the head of the list?

> Second thing is, why do you need something like "s5"?

That's the how logical partitions are named in 7.x

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Marcel Moolenaar
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