From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Feb 23 10:24:30 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id D399016A4CE; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:24:30 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (f170.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.170])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id D94F943D39; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:24:29 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk)
Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by critter.freebsd.dk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1NAOSHo062197;
	Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:24:28 +0100 (CET)
	(envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk)
To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:14:36 +0100."
             <20050223101436.GX9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> 
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:24:28 +0100
Message-ID: <62196.1109154268@critter.freebsd.dk>
Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk
cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>
cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
cc: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse@freebsd.org>
cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Hardcoding gmirror provider 
X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code
	<freebsd-stable.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>,
	<mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>,
	<mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:24:31 -0000

In message <20050223101436.GX9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wr
ites:
>
>--2VOk7s3pVsDYAazo
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2
>Content-Disposition: inline
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
>On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:32:01AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
>+> Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>+> > ...and metadata at the begining of the provider still doesn't fix 'c'
>+> > partition problem and 'a' partition which starts at sector 0, which is
>+> > the default start offset in sysinstall.
>+>=20
>+> The c partition is a problem you have to address anyway (and it is
>+> best addressed by removing the magicness of the c partition
>+> altogether). [...]
>
>It is not going to be removed. We're going to wait for MBR to die.

s/MBR/BSDlabel/

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.