From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 13 12:37:27 2003 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 13CC737B4A7 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:37:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26F4843F43 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:37:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0DKb16A073923; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:37:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) To: Julian Elischer Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: Geom disklabel/fdisk issues? From: phk@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:34:12 PST." Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:37:01 +0100 Message-ID: <73922.1042490221@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Ju lian Elischer writes: > >I think that one of the things we need to do is declare a new flag in >disklabel that declares that the disklabel has been converted to use >relative offsets. if the flag is not set then absolute offsets are >expected.. That would give a way for us to move forward while still >allowing partitions to co-exist with 4.x systems. >in -current, geom just has to 'work with it' if the bit is not set. >New systems would automatically set the bit. Better plan: Abandon BSD labels before disks outgrow them. -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message