From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 11 14:34:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org 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 9252A16A41F; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:34:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D94E43D6B; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:34:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE52C6182; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:34:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from xps.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by tim.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3A06181; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:34:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5D58833DA1; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:34:29 +0200 (CEST) To: Scott Long References: <8350.1126341497@phk.freebsd.dk> <43231C48.80008@samsco.org> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:34:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: <43231C48.80008@samsco.org> (Scott Long's message of "Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:47:52 -0600") Message-ID: <86y863k70q.fsf@xps.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Tests: ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Learn: ham X-Spam-Score: -5.2/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on tim.des.no Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Jung-uk Kim , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bigger boot block size? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:34:42 -0000 Scott Long writes: > Yes, and you've been waving your hands about this for a long time =3D-) > GPT is a nice sucessor, but our support for it is not ready for prime > time, IMHO. What is required to actually make the switch: > > 1) appropriate support in all stages of the bootloader for i386 and > amd64. > 2) appropriate support in sysinstall for all platforms. > 3) docs that describe GPT on FreeBSD, how to install a system to it, and > how to upgrade a system to it. > 4) visual editor for GPT. You might laugh that bsdlabel/disklabel only > uses vi, but it's worlds better than what the gpt utility provides now. 5) rewrite gpt(8) to use GEOM verbs (which need to be implemented in geom_gpt) instead of operating directly on the provider. With the current state of affairs, you can't even 'gpt show' if one of the partitions on the GPT volume is mounted. We also need to fix gstripe, gmirror etc. so they place their metadata at the start of the provider instead of at the end. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no