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Date:      Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:10:46 +0300
From:      "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
To:        Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r219573 - head/sbin/geom/class/part
Message-ID:  <4D7BB726.3000209@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikEDBESCfPyRcYJO3-PX%2BP4jC5wHtoHWV_k_Mov@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201103121705.p2CH5IPs025002@svn.freebsd.org> <AANLkTikEDBESCfPyRcYJO3-PX%2BP4jC5wHtoHWV_k_Mov@mail.gmail.com>

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On 12.03.2011 20:15, Ben Kaduk wrote:
> I think just "enables backward compatibility" is more standard English
> usage.  Not knowing much about the EBR scheme, I would also guess that
> "for partition names in the EBR scheme" is what is intended here, but
> that would be something of a guess.

Partitions from EBR have names like they were in FreeBSD prior to
GEOM_PART. E.g. ad0s5, ad0s6,... But without this option they may be
like these:
> gpart show -p ada2s3
=3D>         0  1830660048           ada2s3  EBR  (873G)
           0    17767890  ada2s3+00000001  !6  (8.5G)
    17767890         189                   - free -  (95K)
    17768079     1023939  ada2s3+00282034  ntfs  (500M)
    18792018  1481207994                   - free -  (706G)
  1500000012     1023939  ada2s3+23809525  fat32  (500M)
  1501023951      204750  ada2s3+23825778  fat32  (100M)
  1501228701   329431347                   - free -  (157G)
> ls -1 /dev/ada2s3*
/dev/ada2s3
/dev/ada2s3+00000001
/dev/ada2s3+00282034
/dev/ada2s3+23809525
/dev/ada2s3+23825778

So, do you recommend to change first sentence to:
"The GEOM_PART_EBR_COMPAT option enables backward compatibility for
partition names in the EBR scheme."

>> +of the EBR scheme. Also it makes impossible any types of actions
>> +with such partitions.
>=20
> Judging by, e.g. r216755 of g_part_ebr.c, it seems that the sense of
> "impossible" is reversed.  I think "It also allows such partitions to
> be modified" might be what is intended?

r216755 only allows destroy partition table, but you can not modify nor
partition, nor partition table.

--=20
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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