From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 02:49:54 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 BDA961065678 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 02:49:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx24.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED258FC15 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 02:49:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 12894 invoked by uid 399); 4 Jun 2008 03:02:59 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.4?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 4 Jun 2008 03:02:59 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <484602C5.7000400@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:49:41 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" References: <20080526062417.GA61084@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeremy Chadwick , 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 02:49:54 -0000 Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > 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 circumvent the outdated limit of 65535 cylinders (see attached patch).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. 5. -stable is not the right list to discuss sysinstall issues. freebsd-hackers would be the first choice, if you don't get a response there, -current would be the next. Send the PR first, and in your message give a brief background of your issue and a URL for the PR. That way when it gets reviewed the feedback will be consolidated into one convenient location. If you want "momentary" review for your work, open source is probably not the arena you should be looking to contribute in. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection