Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:53:34 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT as default? Message-ID: <4629C2FE.9030301@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <863b2u18hz.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <f0am4t$mmk$1@sea.gmane.org> <86wt076k7u.fsf@dwp.des.no> <619464E1-1CB4-4CFC-9ECF-7FC90DC24A20@mac.com> <863b2u18hz.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> writes: >> On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >>> Currently, it is not even possible to list the GPT, let alone create >>> new partitions, if one of the partitions is open. GPT can not be the >>> default partitioning scheme until this is addressed. >> You can list with the -r option. You cannot create unless you allow >> foot-shooting in GEOM (i.e. set kern.geom.debugflags=16). The latter >> a known side-effect of GEOM and has nothing to do with GPT itself. > > No, it is a known side effect of geom_gpt's poor design. Compare with > geom_bsd, for instance. > And as much as it pains me to say it, DES is right here ;-) geom_gpt needs to implement the appropriate verbs to allow apps to instruct the gpt instance to modify itself, instead of forcing apps to blindly overwrite it. Scott
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