ext2fs BSD-slice subpartition?

From: Thomas Stratmann (strattbo_at_fsp1.physik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
Date: 09/04/03

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    Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 23:12:42 +0200
To: stable@freebsd.org

    Hi everyone,

    I extracted this from the grub sourcecode:

    /* possible values for the *BSD-style partition type */
    .
    .
    .
    #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

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