From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 14:22:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C3B916A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:22:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bgo1smout1.broadpark.no (bgo1smout1.broadpark.no [217.13.4.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D237A43D1D for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:22:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from bgo1sminn1.broadpark.no ([217.13.4.93]) by bgo1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IEM00ATGT0RVF90@bgo1smout1.broadpark.no> for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:17:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dsa.des.no ([80.203.228.37]) by bgo1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IEM005AJTCCWRJ0@bgo1sminn1.broadpark.no> for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:24:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dsa.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 0B952EBC06; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:22:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from xps.des.no (xps.des.no [10.0.0.12]) by dsa.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 2370DC0C38; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:22:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 05AAD33C5A; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:22:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:22:45 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) In-reply-to: <20050407224618.GA96655@nagual.pp.ru> To: Andrey Chernov Message-id: <86wtrd1h6y.fsf@xps.des.no> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on dsa.des.no References: <20331.1112908380@critter.freebsd.dk> <440f480855b36bcc43281835e1e3781d@xcllnt.net> <20050407224618.GA96655@nagual.pp.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: cc: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: GEOM architecture and the (lack of) need for foot-shooting X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:22:53 -0000 Andrey Chernov writes: > I completely agree! Disk partition table is not the thing supposed > to be able to affect already booted OS behaviour. When OS is booted > and read disk partition table one time, it must completely forget > about disk partition table and use in-core partition table only > instead. Even someone fill disk partition table with zeroes, nothing > should be changed. It is the way like it always works. Please try not to contradict yourself too much, I might get wiplash trying to follow your argument. This whole discussion started because someone wanted to change the type of a partition from Windows to FreeBSD, and you have been arguing (quite loudly) that it should be possible to do so without needing to override GEOM's failsafes. Now you are saying that it should not be possible at all, because the kernel should ignore changes to the partition table. Please make up your mind... DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no