From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+list@rabbit.us>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proper partition type for components with V1.x superblocks?
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:32:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48725312.6090201@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18545.35548.800516.532854@notabene.brown>
Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday July 3, dledford@redhat.com wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 15:02 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> Why 0xDA?
>>>
>>> As far as I know, the closest thing there is to a registry is the list
>>> that aeb at least used to maintain.
>
> Yes.
> http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html
> lists 0xDA as
>
> da Non-FS Data
>
> Added on request of John Hardin (johnh@aproposretail.com).
>
> which is the closest we could come to "you won't want to look at
> or do anything to this partition".
>
But that's not really what it is, either. The best would be to pick a
new partition identifier entirely.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-07 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-11 9:26 Proper partition type for components with V1.x superblocks? Peter Rabbitson
2008-06-11 11:23 ` Andre Noll
2008-06-11 12:12 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-06-11 21:06 ` Andre Noll
2008-06-11 11:24 ` David Greaves
2008-06-11 11:35 ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-06-11 23:52 ` Neil Brown
2008-07-02 22:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-03 5:17 ` Doug Ledford
2008-07-07 3:17 ` Neil Brown
2008-07-07 14:02 ` Doug Ledford
2008-07-07 17:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-07 17:32 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-07-07 23:10 ` David Greaves
2008-07-07 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-07 17:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
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