[Info-vax] questions on initialize/gpt

[Dirk Munk]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2015-06-23 20:43:42 +0000, Dirk Munk said:
>
>> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd hope that VSI would implement partitioning support at some point,
>>> but they've not discussed it.
>>>
>> Perhaps that will come with the new filesystem?
>
> The file system isn't any particular part of the work that's involved
> here.  The file systems are oblivious to partitioning, if the disk
> drivers, the mount code, the boot path and a few other giblets are
> reworked to conspire about the particular ranges of blocks that are
> involved.   There'd likely need to be support for partition creation,
> deletion, and probably resizing added, and some ancillary support.  But
> the file system itself — ODS-2, ODS-5, FAT, whatever — just gets handed
> a contiguous wad of blocks presented by some device driver that
> synthesizes the appearance of a physical disk.  Which is not all that
> different from how things work on LD devices now, for that matter.
>
>
OK, I see.

On the other hand, disk size is limited to 2TB at the moment, just as 
much as in my DVB-C HDD recorder with a rather ancient version of Linux, 
so that's a problem too.

I wouldn't be surprised if VSI decides to use GPT, but wants to register 
all VMS partition types at once, including the new one(s).