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Date:      Mon, 5 Jul 2010 09:12:24 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Jaakko Heinonen <jh@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: GEOM/bsdlabel regression in 8.x?
Message-ID:  <8E10234C-B4C0-4DF5-9AC9-A8C9C14AE010@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <18DD407F-8776-4401-AA53-D71466219143@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <BC67251C-1621-4291-B0C1-A28CC404E417@gsoft.com.au> <20100704152205.GA1734@a91-153-117-195.elisa-laajakaista.fi> <18DD407F-8776-4401-AA53-D71466219143@gsoft.com.au>

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On 05/07/2010, at 9:06, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

>=20
> On 05/07/2010, at 24:52, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>=20
>> On 2010-07-04, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>>> "bsdlabel: Class not found"
>>=20
>> This is because GEOM_BSD -> GEOM_PART_BSD change. bsdlabel(8) needs
>> read-write access to the device. If it can't get that, it tries an
>> alternative GEOM based method only supported by GEOM_BSD. The error
>> message "Class not found" is printed because the "BSD" GEOM class
>> doesn't exist.
>>=20
>> You might be able to do the changes with gpart(8).
>=20
> Ahh that does work..
>=20
> midget# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -i 4 md0s1

<snip>
> IMO it's still a regression because bsdlabel used to work, although I =
can appreciate it might be a rather in depth change to have it work with =
the New World Order (tm).

So, why didn't it? Shouldn't it DTRT? This is a stock kernel.

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