From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 02:24:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2655137B401 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 02:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6AF43F75 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 02:24:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h579OKnA087297; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 11:24:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Per Kristian Hove From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Jun 2003 22:40:32 +0200." Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 11:24:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87296.1054977860@critter.freebsd.dk> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom_vol_ffs problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 09:24:23 -0000 In message , Per Kristian Hove writes: >plan to growfs it later, and your fstab contains /dev/vol entries) the >obvious thing would be to check the "parent" GEOM and check that the >partition we're tasting is of type FS_BSDFFS. That would eliminate the >"c"-partition problem. This does not work for FFS filesystems stored in apple or sun partitions, but theese do on the other hand, not have the magic 'c' problem. The problem here is the 'c' partitions magicness, and I have worked hard to make eliminate that magicness throughout, but due to the absolute diskoffset bogosity, we cannot dethaumagize it entirely yet. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.