Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
On Jun 22, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
marcel 2006-06-22 22:22:32 UTC
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files:
sbin/gpt gpt.8 gpt.c show.c Log:
Improve support for Intel based Macs:
o Accept hfs as partition type.
o Print Apple HFS partitions using a friendly name.
While we are on subject, I have a patch which makes geom_gpt friendly
to the disks partitioned using BootCamp. Basically, for compatibility
with non-GPT operating systems, BootCamp creates three records in the
MBR: one GPT protective, covering the whole unit, the second one for
HFS and the third one for non-Apple operating system. However, since
geom_gpt considers protective MBR to be invalid unless it's the only
valid MBR record, it doesn't attaches to such disk.
Do you have any objections to lifting such check?
I don't mind changing geom_gpt to work for Intel based Macs, but I'd
like to avoid simply removing checks and thus accepting just about
anything. I'd like to keep the checks strict enough that we don't try
to interpret garbage as partition information. If we allow the PMBR
to have actual partitions, I'd like to extend the checks to cover
the partition information itself. For example, we now check that the
table only has partitions of type 0xEE (if at all). This is a sloppy
test by any standard. If we allow "normal" partitions, I'd like to
enforce that there's exactly 1 partition of type 0xEE and it covers
the whole disk. This way we make sure that it's still pretty much a
PMBR by intend, even though it really is used as an MBR.
Does that sound reasonable to you?
Thanks, that's exactly what my patch does!
Not that it matter much, but linux uses the same approach.
-Maxim
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