From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 23 19:27:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF652106566C for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:27:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-tul01m020-f182.google.com (mail-tul01m020-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA52E8FC18 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:27:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obcwo16 with SMTP id wo16so5041791obc.13 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:27:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fDg7sGqodWobGac69XmWb8DoSiArrk9JQMjDSV5IkHo=; b=KcmZQXAL/b/2Nd/hOnY9XQjmNGurW/uo5U8Hq+BXUnKVMvSK0NKBfHaEgvMTcsuh51 GVDSNbI+OmyOc4XLANTFeIjudLZ5y0juPnJu/dcijBXRbLiFPXHO1HbpmHrDqaSQraCS 3Id024T9cyjUEzmHHdI0tFD8NBTDRiyON3fbw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.85.103 with SMTP id g7mr9039652obz.38.1327346853006; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:27:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.46.163 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:27:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120123184604.GA5939@sandvine.com> References: <009501ccd9f9$cad088d0$60719a70$@fisglobal.com> <1327343079.69022.87.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <20120123184604.GA5939@sandvine.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:27:32 -0800 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Ed Maste Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Parallels v4 regression (aka ada(4) oddity) in RELENG_9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:27:34 -0000 On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Ed Maste wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:32:59AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> =A0 =A0 It's better to be methodical and delete all of the partitions an= d >> create the table from scratch. I've run into reproducible cases in the >> past where just doing gpart destroy -F for instance [on 9.0-BETA1+ >> media] didn't work because geom retasted the partition tables and >> slices. > > Do you have the reproduction steps documented somewhere (and if not, can > you write them up)? =A0In order to have working automated installs we nee= d > to be able to unconditionally reinit a drive w/o having behavoiur depend > on what happens to be left behind. Sadly the script that reliably reproduced the issue was was lost with my previous work root drive. I was using the prescribed directions for creating MBRs per the gpart manpage, so it shouldn't be that hard to reproduce. Things got hairy at the end so I also started mixing fdisk -BIq at the time along with gpart create -S GPT. Bottom line is that I guess I'm on the 'hook' for coming up with the repro case again *sigh*.. Thanks, -Garrett