Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:33:34 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT as default? Message-ID: <91BC1CF6-6C72-4263-A99A-C24FC209586E@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4629C2FE.9030301@samsco.org> References: <f0am4t$mmk$1@sea.gmane.org> <86wt076k7u.fsf@dwp.des.no> <619464E1-1CB4-4CFC-9ECF-7FC90DC24A20@mac.com> <863b2u18hz.fsf@dwp.des.no> <4629C2FE.9030301@samsco.org>
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On Apr 21, 2007, at 12:53 AM, Scott Long wrote: > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: >> Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> writes: >>> On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: >>>> Currently, it is not even possible to list the GPT, let alone =20 >>>> create >>>> new partitions, if one of the partitions is open. GPT can not =20 >>>> 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=3D16). 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 =20 >> 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. Those verbs exist. There's no poor design There's only a long time to get from A to B. --=20 Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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