Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:37:01 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: FreeBSD current users <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Geom disklabel/fdisk issues? Message-ID: <73922.1042490221@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:34:12 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301131230310.72092-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301131230310.72092-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, 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
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