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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?
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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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