Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:43:57 +0200 (MET DST) From: gvrooij@mmra1.ms.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, pst@shockwave.com Subject: Re: kern/280: new slice manager totally confused about old slice disks Message-ID: <9503291043.AA29820@mmra1.ms.philips.nl> In-Reply-To: <199503290933.TAA25301@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 29, 95 07:33:09 pm
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> > The c partition size is rounded down while the d partition is rejected. > These partitions are not used for normal operation (except maybe sector > #2 of partition c to read the label) so normal operation is not normally > affected. Similar rounding down of the a partition (e.g.) would cause That's a big relief. Pitty though that we'll get the warnings (pitty because we didnt screw up anything; we just followed 2.0R's sysinstall). > problems if the file system extends into the lost sectors. Most such > problems are avoided by specially handling the 50000-sector "whole > disk for FreeBSD" partition table. Eh? What's tyhe magic behind 50000? -Guido
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