Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:10:01 -0700 From: Juli Mallett <juli@clockworksquid.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: marcel@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is anything being done to un-break partition names? Message-ID: <eaa228be0907130210l9cad5bcg3638ab8141cc0a50@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5BE6CEC9-8F49-473B-A3E4-2702680A8836@mac.com> References: <eaa228be0906041618k6e6db227m9627946f3e0d4980@mail.gmail.com> <20090605051203.GD1705@garage.freebsd.pl> <46FB00ED-62DC-4924-A84A-8C34B26DA22E@mac.com> <20090605200512.GA2313@garage.freebsd.pl> <5BE6CEC9-8F49-473B-A3E4-2702680A8836@mac.com>
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 13:38, Marcel Moolenaar<xcllnt@mac.com> wrote: > That introduces significant breakages in normal setups. > The priority should not be changed. It's resulting in > the right behaviour and any exceptions to that (i.e. > we need the wrong behaviour) should be coded explicitly. > > The closest we can get is by having the BSD disklabel > code check if there are valid MBR partitions defined > and if yes, back-off. This covers exactly the problem > case and doesn't introduce false negatives in other > scenarios. Are there any efforts outstanding to do this for 8.0? Or did it get done and I missed it? > But: we should fix sysinstall as well. Either we should > finally rip out DD or we should have it create proper > DD images... Perhaps randi@ will take a look; she's been working on nearby parts of sysinstall for a while. Adding her to CC since I don't know if she reads geom@.
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