Peter Kay <syllops...@syllopsium.co.uk> wrote: > GPT is a foregone conclusion unless you are blind to the future. The only > alternative is OS specific disk hackery, and that does no-one any favours.
Well, OpenBSD/i386 (and now /amd64) has used such hackery since the very beginning and doesn't fare too badly with it. Back in the day, I used to run FreeBSD with "dangerously dedicated" disks that didn't have MBR partitioning at all, just a pure BSD disklabel. (FreeBSD eventually discouraged/abolished this due to some BIOSes refusing to boot disks without an MBR partition table.) GPT's main selling point is that it is superior to MBR if you use either as your native partitioning scheme. That doesn't apply to OpenBSD. GPT is also useful if you want different operating systems to coexist on the same disk. For OpenBSD, that's more of a grudgingly tolerated configuration and not recommended. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
