From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 22:49:43 2004 Return-Path: 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 BDDBA16A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:49:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lon-mail-4.gradwell.net (lon-mail-4.gradwell.net [193.111.201.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7CA743D1F for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:49:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cbh@chrishedley.com) X-Gradwell-Debug: delivering mail for [freebsd-current@freebsd.org] to mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]:25 Received: from cpc2-oxfd4-4-0-cust119.oxfd.cable.ntl.com [80.3.246.119] (helo: mail.cbhnet)1.123) id 414f5e85.00513e.000 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:49:41 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cbhnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C51CC798C; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:49:38 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.cbhnet ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.cbhnet [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00968-03; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:49:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from teapot.cbhnet (teapot.cbhnet [192.168.1.1]) by mail.cbhnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E2EC794D; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:49:35 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:49:35 +0100 (BST) From: Chris Hedley X-X-Sender: cbh@teapot.cbhnet To: Brooks Davis In-Reply-To: <20040920174106.GB21687@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Message-ID: <20040920234231.F1009@teapot.cbhnet> References: <20040919225036.B1582@teapot.cbhnet> <20040920174106.GB21687@odin.ac.hmc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at chrishedley.com X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:46:07 +0000 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible bug in sbin/bsdlabel.c in -CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:49:43 -0000 On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Brooks Davis wrote: > IIRC you can't extend the number of partitions unless you don't need > boot blocks so this isn't all that useful except in situtations where > gpt(8) is a much better solution. Fixing this hardcoding seems like a > reasionable idea, but I'm not an expert on this subject. We're trying > to avoid stopgap hack to bsdlabel in general because it's an obviously > dead-end solution and we want to move on to something like GPT as soon > as feasiable. I see what you mean; I neglected to reboot before saying "it doesn't cause any problems" and it does indeed cause the minor problem of killing boot2 (just how many mistakes can I fit into one email? Perhaps I shouldn't post so late at night :) Er, anyway, since I'm now reduced to booting off an installation floppy I'll revise my claim to echo your comment that it's great as long as you don't ever need to boot. I suppose I should change it back to an 8 partition label and wait for gpt to mature unless there's a fix that doesn't cause big partition tables to interfere with the boot process (maybe I should have a look at how NetBSD does it...) Chris.