freebsd stable - Sep 2003 - ext2fs BSD-slice subpartition?

Hi everyone,

I extracted this from the grub sourcecode:

/* possible values for the *BSD-style partition type */
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#define FS_EXT2FS       17      /* Linux Extended 2 file system */

It would actually meet my partitioning requirements to register a
partition inside one of my slices as ext2 (I currently mask the
partition type as ISO9660(!) and use a *patched* grub, so you see this
situation is suboptimal...), but the disklabel program will not honor
this (neither numerically, i.e. 17, nor textual which I know from the
source). I don't know about the -CURRENT bsdlabel, I suppose things are
the same.

Is there any serious objection to supporting this?

Regards
Thomas

Hello,
> I extracted this from the grub sourcecode:
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> #define FS_EXT2FS       17      /* Linux Extended 2 file system */
(Actually, this is derived from NetBSD and OpenBSD's disklabel.h.)

My current setup uses this, but it's been a while since I installed
everything and I haven't the slightest recollection of how I worked
around FreeBSD disklabel checking.  I may very well have written it
by hand to the slice.
> source). I don't know about the -CURRENT bsdlabel, I suppose things are
> the same.
I don't track -CURRENT, but according to:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/sys/disklabel.h.diff?r1=1.72&r2=1.73
it seems that disklabel could accept that value as of 2002/03/28.
> Is there any serious objection to supporting this?
I'll second your request, the patch looks straightforward enough
(6 lines in src/sys/sys/disklabel.h?), at least for -CURRENT (since
-STABLE is frozen until 4.9, if I'm not mistaken).

					Regards,
					Cedric Ware.