Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:40:49 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r258448 - head/sys/geom/part Message-ID: <52934551.7050608@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201311212202.rALM2xAS078472@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201311212202.rALM2xAS078472@svn.freebsd.org>
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on 22/11/2013 00:02 Marcel Moolenaar said the following: > Author: marcel > Date: Thu Nov 21 22:02:59 2013 > New Revision: 258448 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/258448 > > Log: > Have the GPT probe return a lower priority when the MBR is not a PMBR > The purpose of the PMBR is to have the disk appear in use to GPT > unaware utilities (like fdisk). However, if the PMBR has been changed > by a GPT unaware utlity then we must assume that this was deliberate > (as it involved removal of the special slice) and we should not treat > the unmodified GPT-specific sectors as being valid. By lowering the > probe priority in that case, the MBR scheme will take precedence and > the kernel will end up using the MBR and not the GPT. We will still > use the GPT if the kernel does not support the MBR scheme. Thank you very much for this change! Finally I can get rid of my local patch from a while ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.geom/3776/focus=3802 Your solution is clearly superior while providing the same end result. -- Andriy Gapon
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