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Date:      Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:43:43 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/conf GENERIC src/sys/arm/conf EP80219 src/sys/conf NOTES files files.powerpc options src/sys/geom geom_apple.c geom_gpt.c src/sys/geom/part g_part.c g_part.h g_part_apm.c g_part_gpt.c g_part_if.m src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC ...
Message-ID:  <20070208094343.eeiwu0r7s408o04g@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <16A7B376-03A7-4C99-A5EC-B9C182E718BF@mac.com>
References:  <200702071855.l17ItVkw041132@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070207200130.J23167@fledge.watson.org> <16A7B376-03A7-4C99-A5EC-B9C182E718BF@mac.com>

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Quoting Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> (from Wed, 7 Feb 2007 =20
12:42:08 -0800):

> On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Robert Watson wrote:
>> Does this mean we can expect to see the disabling of GEOM  =20
>> exclusive-use protections disappear from normal administrative  =20
>> activities soon, as there will now be approved channels to  =20
>> incrementally change the layout of in-use partition tables?
>
> Yes, that's the idea. A tool will be developed first that uses
> these verbs (though I already have a regression test suite
> capable of creating and modifying APM and GPT partitions).

May I suggest to look at sade(1) for this purpose?

Bye,
Alexander.

> After that the idea is to migrate other partitioning schemes
> and slicers into this framework. The end-result being a single
> tool for partitioning disks with any and all schemes supported
> by the framework and using the ctlreq mechanism to work on live
> disks.
>
> --=20
> Marcel Moolenaar
> xcllnt@mac.com
>
>
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