Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:07:44 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: svn-src-projects@freebsd.org, "src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG" <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r245399 - projects/altix2/sys/geom/part Message-ID: <50F45780.4000505@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <ADC170C3-3954-4080-9190-A44C41500DC0@xcllnt.net> References: <201301132336.r0DNaLb7038996@svn.freebsd.org> <50F34A2B.3080202@freebsd.org> <ADC170C3-3954-4080-9190-A44C41500DC0@xcllnt.net>
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On 01/13/13 20:34, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Jan 13, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> Why not make this a GEOM flag? > > It just needs to work. It's unreasonable to put the burden > on users/operators. It took me a long time to figure out > why 1) EFI didn't see the partitions, and 2) EFI wouldn't > mount the FAT32 file system. > > The first was the result of the active flag being set -- > go figure. The second was the result of the partition not > being aligned to a track boundary -- which is interesting > in light of all the claims and statements about geometry > being a thing of the past and totally irrelevant... > > I at least have the advantage of knowing the code and > knowing what changes I could try to make it work -- it's > not the same for mere end-users. They'll be stuck and as > such look for a solution in other OSes. > Sounds reasonable. Thanks for the explanation! It might be nice to still have a flag to override the default setting on a per-device basis for power users who know they want a particular behavior, but it's not a big deal. -Nathan
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