Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:32:52 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT as default? Message-ID: <86y7kjrlez.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <71073037-7FA3-4C51-9276-8AA7F42B95DE@mac.com> (Marcel Moolenaar's message of "Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:32:45 -0700") References: <f0am4t$mmk$1@sea.gmane.org> <86wt076k7u.fsf@dwp.des.no> <619464E1-1CB4-4CFC-9ECF-7FC90DC24A20@mac.com> <863b2u18hz.fsf@dwp.des.no> <4629C2FE.9030301@samsco.org> <91BC1CF6-6C72-4263-A99A-C24FC209586E@mac.com> <f0eauu$97s$1@sea.gmane.org> <A08237C6-0F3C-4C60-B5C0-8C5AD3998EC7@mac.com> <f0g55u$dn7$1@sea.gmane.org> <DF7EC867-FC12-4C2C-92E6-4FCC18795562@mac.com> <86irboi0ra.fsf@dwp.des.no> <3383A397-6A95-4546-841D-CF17B98A797C@mac.com> <861wibin3h.fsf@dwp.des.no> <71073037-7FA3-4C51-9276-8AA7F42B95DE@mac.com>
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Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> writes:
> On Apr 23, 2007, at 12:09 AM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> > Marcel, my words may have been poorly chosen, but I've been using GPT
> > for several years, and I've reported these issues (and others) to you
> > several times over the course of those years and witnessed your
> > complete lack of interest.
> Yes, your words were poorly chosen and you continue to show poor
> judgement. I have exactly 1 thread in my mailbox where I discuss
> GPT with you and that problem has been resolved.
Yes, it was eventually resolved. You ignored my initial report. I
bugged you about it, and we had a fairly fruitful conversation during
which I pinpointed the exact change which had broken GPT. That was
five months - to the day - before the bug, an overly-restrictive
sanity check which prevented GEOM_GPT from recognizing its own GPTs,
was finally fixed.
> I fail to see how that's several times over the course of years
> and I fail to see how that represents a complete lack of interest.
>
> What else did you send me mail about?
The fact that it's not possible to view or modify the partition table
while partitions are mounted.
> In an attempt to close the gap between us, let me ask you this:
> What's the cleft between g_part and the other GEOM classes?
> In what way do you think I'm hell-bent to increase that what
> I don't know?
I should have said "the gap between $GPT and other GEOM classes",
where $GPT is "whichever GEOM class currently implements GPT support".
We have a fairly large number of GEOM classes, and right now they fall
into two categories:
1) those that are configured using a geom(8) plugin: gcache, gconcat,
geli, gjournal, glabel, gmirror, gmultipath, gnop, graid3, gshsec,
gstripe
2) those that aren't: $GPT, gbde and gvinum
(there's a third category - GEOM classes which replace legacy code and
interface with legacy applications such as fdisk(8) and bsdlabel(8) -
but it isn't relevant here)
The fact that GEOM_GPT was in the second category was understandable
given that it was written two years before geom(8), but now that we
*do* have geom(8) I believe it is in everyone's interest to use it.
Yes, *your* interests as well, because it really *is* that easy to
write a geom(8) plugin if your class implements the necessary verbs;
you'll spend less time on the code than on the man page.
DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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