From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 13 12:34:22 2003 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 CBD0B37B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:34:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C70B043F3F for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:34:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <2003011320341400200m8msce>; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:34:14 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA72505 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:34:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:34:12 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: Geom disklabel/fdisk issues? In-Reply-To: <20030113181713.O11356-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message