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Date:      Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:25:06 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Remove requirement of alignment to track from MBR scheme
Message-ID:  <4DE62192.4020905@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DE5EE4E.4080002@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4DDA2F0B.2040203@yandex.ru> <4DE5EE4E.4080002@FreeBSD.org>

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You had a type in my email address, but nevertheless :-)

on 01/06/2011 10:46 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following:
> 
> For a summary:
> 1. I left the code of auto-align untouched, MBR still aligns new
> partitions. It seems for the consensus it is better keep it for 9.0-RELEASE.

So still no way to specify custom offsets that won't get mangled?
I don't think that this was a consensus.  At least I and, IIRC, Warner have never
agreed to this.  I would agree to current behavior being the default one, but I
think that there must be an option that allows to override any alignment.

> The "-g" option seems useless until this behavior will not be changed,
> so i did not add it.
> 
> 2. The probe routine now does not truncate available disk space
> to the track boundary. Also new partition tables will not do that.
> 
> 3. For the MBR scheme was added new checking and if partition starts
> from within the first track, its space will not be reserved as before.

No objections here.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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