From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 18 05:00:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 0AB6816A41F for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:00:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jos@catnook.com) Received: from 209-204-181-78.dsl.static.sonic.net (209-204-181-78.dsl.static.sonic.net [209.204.181.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CB6A43D45 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:00:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jos@catnook.com) Received: (qmail 20009 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Mar 2006 05:01:16 -0000 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:00:54 -0801 From: Jos Backus To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060318050116.GA19952@lizzy.catnook.local> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20060317012428.N52721@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <863bhh3y05.fsf@xps.des.no> <20060317174743.GA13507@lizzy.catnook.local> <20060317213430.R31244@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20060317204704.GA16269@lizzy.catnook.local> <20060318032023.K40573@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060318032023.K40573@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:40:57 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] NetBSD disklabel support for geom_bsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jos@catnook.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:00:57 -0000 On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 03:48:04AM +0200, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: [snip] > Well, as I wrote in my previuos letter, it's my mistake that FreeBSD > uses slice-relative offsets while NetBSD uses absolute offsets. Actually, > both systems use absolute offsets, and offset conversion isn't required > (but just accidently happens harmless). I thought they were relative too. So this means one cannot move either FreeBSD or NetBSD partitions without modifying the label, requiring the moving tool (such as PM) having to understand the label format. Seems like a downside to me. > Actually, I can tell what has created my confusion. Did anyone analyze > how disklabel offsets look under RELENG_4? It's very interesting: [snip] -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com