From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jan 27 21:32:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3335837B401; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:32:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from edgemaster.zombie.org (edgemaster.creighton.edu [147.134.112.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B52543F75; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:32:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from smkelly@zombie.org) Received: by edgemaster.zombie.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D8431415C6; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:32:17 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:32:17 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: Bruce Evans Cc: Peter Wemm , phk@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: DEVFS and GEOM mandatorification timeline. Message-ID: <20030128053217.GA738@edgemaster.zombie.org> References: <20030124190057.91A3B2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> <20030125110722.C8080-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030125110722.C8080-100000@gamplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:26:46AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: =2E.. > > > >To the best of your knowledge, there are no remaining serious bugs or > > > >missing functionality with GEOM (like the disklabel editing problems > > > >found before 5.0, etc)? > > > > > > There is one errata point (can't rewrite BSD boot code on a disk > > > which is in use) which I am testing a patch for. > > > > > > I know of no bugs at present. >=20 > Features like disklabel -r and disklabel -W not working are not bugs of > course. While I don't agree with the way he said it, I agree with what Bruce Evans is saying here. I am still having problems with disklabel(8) and GEOM as I have previously noted on -current. I consider this a bug, and a rather big one at that. If nobody can explain why it is specific to my configuration, then I will continue to consider it a bug. I may not have a commit bit, and I may not have a @FreeBSD.ORG e-mail addres, but I still have an opinion. I put myself in this strange boat called "the userbase." This is a boat that you might actually want to listen to the few voices in. I would highly suggest GEOM actually properly support disklabel'ing before it is made The One True Way. I was originally in favor of GEOM (as an end-user), but I'm really starting to get a bitter taste in my mouth. edgemaster# uname -v FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Mon Jan 27 14:00:00 CST 2003 root@edgemaster.zombie.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EDGEMASTER edgemaster# disklabel -r ad1s1 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1024000 6291519 4.2BSD 2048 16384 90 # (Cyl. 391*- 455*) b: 6291456 63 swap # (Cyl. 0*- 391*) c: 117226242 63 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 7296= *) e: 10485760 7315519 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 455*- 1108= *) f: 99425026 17801279 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 1108*- 7296= *) partition c: partition extends past end of unit Warning, partition c doesn't start at 0! Warning, An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system ut= ilities partition f: partition extends past end of unit edgemaster# disklabel -B ad1s1 partition c: partition extends past end of unit Warning, partition c doesn't start at 0! Warning, An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system ut= ilities partition f: partition extends past end of unit Note that if this is writing boot code, it is not working. When I select "F1 FreeBSD", I receive the message "Boot error". A keypress results in my system rebooting. edgemaster# disklabel ad1s1 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1024000 6291456 4.2BSD 2048 16384 90 # (Cyl. 391*- 455*) b: 6291456 0 swap # (Cyl. 0 - 391*) c: 117226242 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 7296= *) e: 10485760 7315456 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 455*- 1108= *) f: 99425026 17801216 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 1108*- 7296= *) --=20 Sean Kelly | PGP KeyID: D2E5E296 smkelly@zombie.org | http://www.zombie.org --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+NhXhPm7A9NLl4pYRApJFAJ4/qzeVtmuJQFEPSLcKnaxCHxCx+wCgk450 0SZbhCiyQaYNwNc9nKpY04M= =vv5x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message