From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 11 23:39:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E73106564A for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:39:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru) Received: from 0.mx.codelabs.ru (0.mx.codelabs.ru [144.206.177.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C81F28FC12 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:39:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=simple; s=one; d=codelabs.ru; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:Reply-To:References:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:Sender; b=MX+Hm3nQoCbDMVua7ZpHDV+AHlrgZBKn1sfcSgswedHMsYkH8Y5escAkY2hCrKmcF6WImEofBAtneDgXboY85XsPjfn2LugwtZqzYt1HLLSrSHCj5puB4wupQ1c4vP5kZwqWwiMRYZvuLag79eZioS3jFHzfTZ94oJ/mzLr89so=; Received: from amnesiac.at.no.dns (ppp85-141-163-216.pppoe.mtu-net.ru [85.141.163.216]) by 0.mx.codelabs.ru with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1MPm9q-000P7G-Dl; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:39:06 +0400 Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:39:05 +0400 From: Eygene Ryabinkin To: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: References: <20090710071023.GB32316@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> <20090710112631.GE32316@rwpc12.mby.riverwillow.net.au> <3a142e750907100433y307f9b2bya1dc54953bdf5de2@mail.gmail.com> <0B1F6799-2FAC-4C01-A978-42E247979CAB@mac.com> <1z5niluEh3OBPNSdMbOMyoEwzX4@CWODRlDR5RMqbkBfR0/UzHcfNhE> <267A655F-13A6-4D79-A933-3A78854AC5FD@mac.com> <4A590E7F.8000208@phat.za.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru Cc: Aragon Gouveia , John Marshall , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-BETA1 bsdlabel broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:39:10 -0000 Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 04:07:57PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Jul 11, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > > Different and mostly harmful (as per UPDATING, 20090320) problem. > > I think you meant to say harmless and not harmful. Yes, sorry. > >> Is it possible sysinstall is a culprit in all this? > > > > No, the problem is that bsdlabel is missing the so-called "MBR offset" > > from GEOM, because in 8.x GEOM_PART_* are used and they have no such > > geom verb (and anyway, 8.x's bsdlabel queries BSD geoms for it, not > > the > > PART_BSD ones). > > Actually, yes. This is a problem in sysinstall. The "MBR offset" > you're talking about does not relate to the geometry of a device. > It relates to offsets in the disk label. OK, you're right -- I was talking only about the strange offsets inside bsdlabel and warnings that come from these offsets. Aragon should see them if he tries to run bsdlabel from 8.0-BETA1 on the properly partitioned disks with slices that do not start at 0. -- Eygene _ ___ _.--. # \`.|\..----...-'` `-._.-'_.-'` # Remember that it is hard / ' ` , __.--' # to read the on-line manual )/' _/ \ `-_, / # while single-stepping the kernel. `-'" `"\_ ,_.-;_.-\_ ', fsc/as # _.-'_./ {_.' ; / # -- FreeBSD Developers handbook {_.-``-' {_/ #