Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:39:05 +0400 From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: Aragon Gouveia <aragon@phat.za.net>, John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-BETA1 bsdlabel broken? Message-ID: <ycOu8/7iRdFxymza50TkKtbLQX4@UL%2BEw68dotyeVWwcX17wEARTb1s> In-Reply-To: <DBC699F8-8FB3-4F36-83A9-AFA5A04F9B1D@mac.com> References: <20090710071023.GB32316@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> <20090710112631.GE32316@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> <3a142e750907100433y307f9b2bya1dc54953bdf5de2@mail.gmail.com> <0B1F6799-2FAC-4C01-A978-42E247979CAB@mac.com> <1z5niluEh3OBPNSdMbOMyoEwzX4@CWODRlDR5RMqbkBfR0/UzHcfNhE> <267A655F-13A6-4D79-A933-3A78854AC5FD@mac.com> <TiR5kGIN59NiPk3Q5HjMiImYooQ@MbxgtlHN37ICHkxRO9kSrKasfoA> <4A590E7F.8000208@phat.za.net> <z%2BonGf9tzlidpdZMJz2tC//fvv8@UL%2BEw68dotyeVWwcX17wEARTb1s> <DBC699F8-8FB3-4F36-83A9-AFA5A04F9B1D@mac.com>
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Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 04:07:57PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Jul 11, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> > Different and mostly harmful (as per UPDATING, 20090320) problem.
>
> I think you meant to say harmless and not harmful.
Yes, sorry.
> >> Is it possible sysinstall is a culprit in all this?
> >
> > No, the problem is that bsdlabel is missing the so-called "MBR offset"
> > from GEOM, because in 8.x GEOM_PART_* are used and they have no such
> > geom verb (and anyway, 8.x's bsdlabel queries BSD geoms for it, not
> > the
> > PART_BSD ones).
>
> Actually, yes. This is a problem in sysinstall. The "MBR offset"
> you're talking about does not relate to the geometry of a device.
> It relates to offsets in the disk label.
OK, you're right -- I was talking only about the strange offsets inside
bsdlabel and warnings that come from these offsets. Aragon should see
them if he tries to run bsdlabel from 8.0-BETA1 on the properly
partitioned disks with slices that do not start at 0.
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Eygene
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