On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 12:36:59AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: > > OpenBSD has done it. I've made the same code changes but I stopped > just before committing because we have dozens of custom copies of disklabel > code that would need to be adjusted and tested. >
You also need to keep in mind that OpenBSD don't give a flying fsck about doing multi-boot. When I updated my laptop a couple of years ago the system recovery insisted on using GPT (to the extent that it *must* be laid out exactly how they expect[1]), since I wanted windows on there I needed to work with that. GPT is the way the PC hardware is going, ignoring that direction is just going to result in pain further down the track. I have been using GPT + wedges + cgd for a couple of years, it works fine. [1] I had to resort to letting it install windows, then immediately shrink the windows partition so I could create partitions for linux and NetBSD. I have windows 8, fedora core and NetBSD all coexisting using grub2 as the boot selector. -- Brett Lymn Let go, or be dragged - Zen proverb.