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Date:      Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:25:51 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern.geom.debugflags=16 does NOT allow me to write to device
Message-ID:  <4BD191CF.40106@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <r2h5a1151761004230334p1f8be0cdv93c3cacf00882c2f@mail.gmail.com>
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on 23/04/2010 13:34 Peter Schuller said the following:
>> It's easy.
> 
> Thank you for posting the example. I never really understood that
> gpart was to be the generic tool; I thought it was gpt specific.
> Obviously I should have read up better.
> 
> Is gpart to be considered "tested", "stable", "production quality"
> and/or "default" now then, or is it still cutting edge/experimental?

Yes, it's "tested", "stable", "production quality" and/or "default".
All other tools are slowly rotting now, but can be fixed to correctly works via
GEOM interface the same way gpart does now.
E.g. see Andrey's work on sade(8).

> So for example, would it make sense to submit patches (not promising
> anything) to adjust the handbook and relegate disklabel to an
> historical artifact?

gpart is the way to go and is the best tool to use on recent FreeBSD.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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