A request for unnested UFS implementation in MBR
Manish Jain
jude.obscure at yandex.com
Sat Jul 7 22:00:46 UTC 2018
On 07/08/18 03:16, RW via freebsd-questions wrote:
> 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.
How ? Can you give me the gpart command for that ? Remember, the command
must put the UFS partition directly into the MBR. Not first into a BSD nest.
Tx
MJ
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