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Date:      Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:02:22 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, terry@lambert.org
Cc:        current@freefall.freebsd.org, darrylo@sr.hp.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com
Subject:   Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure
Message-ID:  <199611262202.JAA21885@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>If you are going to present fake geometry numbers, they should percoalte
>up from where the real geometry numbers are coming from.

They do percolate up, but there is no "real" geometry.  There lots of
different geometries:

	default for newfs:	independent, X/1/4096
	values in the label:	independent, usually unused
	values in the partition table: should agree with BIOS
	BIOS			indepependent, important only for booting and
				in other OS's
	physical:		independent, usually an average for sectors/
				track, usually unused

These geometries should NOT be visible in all layers.

Bruce



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