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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jengelh@computergmbh.de
Cc: chris.mason@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, btrfs-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: BTRFS partition usage...
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:34:45 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080212.153445.118944467.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802121518500.21102@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:21:52 +0100 (CET)

> For sparc you could have something like
> 
> 			startlba	endlba	type
> 	sda1		0		2	1 Boot
> 	sda2		2		58	3 Whole disk
> 	sda3		58		90000	83 Linux
> 
> and slap the bootloader into "MBR", just like on x86.
> Or I am missing something..

You cannot specify partitions on LBA boundaries on sparc, the Sun disk
label specifies the partition start points in cylinders.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-12 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-06 17:00 [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs v0.12 released Chris Mason
2008-02-11  1:12 ` David Miller
2008-02-11 13:42   ` Chris Mason
2008-02-12  6:43     ` David Miller
2008-02-12 13:43       ` Chris Mason
2008-02-12  7:21 ` BTRFS partition usage David Miller
2008-02-12  8:11   ` David Miller
2008-02-12 13:49     ` Chris Mason
2008-02-12 14:00       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-12 14:08         ` Chris Mason
2008-02-12 14:21           ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-12 14:35             ` Chris Mason
2008-02-12 15:04               ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-12 16:17                 ` Chris Mason
2008-02-12 23:38                 ` David Miller
2008-02-12 23:42                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-13  1:09                     ` David Miller
2008-02-13  1:22                     ` Rene Herman
2008-02-12 23:35               ` David Miller
2008-02-13  7:02                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-12 23:34             ` David Miller [this message]
2008-02-12 23:33           ` David Miller
2008-02-13  2:10             ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-14  0:51               ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-02-12 23:26         ` David Miller
2008-02-12 23:39           ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-13  1:08             ` David Miller
2008-02-13  1:25           ` Bryan Henderson
2008-02-12 23:28         ` David Miller
2008-02-13  0:45           ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-12 20:50       ` David Miller
2008-02-12  9:23 ` CRC32C big endian bugs David Miller
2008-02-12 21:55 ` BTRFS only works with PAGE_SIZE <= 4K David Miller
2008-02-12 22:03   ` Chris Mason

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