From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 02:25:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC7A1065673 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 02:25:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51C188FC13 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 02:25:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixmania@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id q2so223535uge.37 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:25:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=KgHcgaNkA8GnFni5QBYFm6Nx+5UXTAaL1B2Vd1AKrQk=; b=BrEoOTiNKGP/ULnB/nu7f0t2lXg/dY8+p4Eq/OFRYZoP0NUiI6ApjmY+sY5OmQbYjy z38CuWtpaW0/uzhKQlkowcH0gaYcB5JRL/exkZV9m61G/aYH8lNMEVR+GU+bI/7SnVgc rcPk9klKOsglqZJVx5IzQgL8TC6ek1CKVlix4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=FU8oPn0WUXRCIP/t4fiHpfUqmbexCTckkgZCVMfuszIDvn1P36KZ3IdlTM/e6QE4t+ TbPuOsFOXanCTR6R8a5hnq12d/yHPipg5AnARACwFhm2WxEU212vapg1+XyC7/2dIHcm hrXF0h2HxzpaN8N9k3kfjncLh0iiNrvkOzcH0= Received: by 10.67.87.6 with SMTP id p6mr343564ugl.39.1212546310527; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:25:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.234.1 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 19:25:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 23:25:09 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" To: "Jeremy Chadwick" In-Reply-To: <20080526062417.GA61084@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080526062417.GA61084@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: Why does sysinstall still limits cylinders to 65535? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:25:12 -0000 On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:52:06PM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: >> I have been struglling with sysinstall, attempting to make it handle >> the geometry of some large SATA drives. After a lot of effort I >> decided to stop suffering and modified the program in order to >> circumvent the outdated limit of 65535 cylinders (see attached patch). >> I'm thinking about submitting a PR with a change request but I'd like >> to get some additional opinions first. I did not test it in "batch" >> mode, so it would be great if any kind soul did this. > > Carlos, bottom line is to simply ignore the geometry warning you see. > > For others... > > This is just added evidence that the humongous warning spit out during > sysinstall's fdisk is confusing users (many taking it very seriously > when there's really no problem at all). > > I think this is the third time someone's brought this up in the past > couple months... Sorry if I sound annoying but nobody else answered. I still believe that something must be done to fix sysinstall, so I'm asking you (where "you" means the "others" in Jeremy's message) to provide some additional feedback. Please fill-in the dots in one or more of the following options: 1. We can not make such change sysinstall because ... 2. Your patch is not correct/sufficient. I would be better if ... 3. Please submit a PR. It will momentarily be reviewed by ... 4. Give up. Nobody here cares about this issue. Thanks in advance. -- Carlos A. M. dos Santos