From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 12 21:58:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCD41106566B for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:58:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaduk@mit.edu) Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu (DMZ-MAILSEC-SCANNER-7.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9867F8FC24 for ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:58:09 +0000 (UTC) X-AuditID: 12074424-b7b0bae000000a05-bf-4d7be8eb7c35 Received: from mailhub-auth-1.mit.edu ( [18.9.21.35]) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu (Symantec Brightmail Gateway) with SMTP id 19.EB.02565.BE8EB7D4; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:43:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by mailhub-auth-1.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id p2CLh6Hm028620; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:43:07 -0500 Received: from multics.mit.edu (MULTICS.MIT.EDU [18.187.1.73]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as kaduk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id p2CLh5A8004213 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:43:06 -0500 (EST) Received: (from kaduk@localhost) by multics.mit.edu (8.12.9.20060308) id p2CLh4V0027108; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:43:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:43:04 -0500 (EST) From: Benjamin Kaduk To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" In-Reply-To: <4D7BB726.3000209@yandex.ru> Message-ID: References: <201103121705.p2CH5IPs025002@svn.freebsd.org> <4D7BB726.3000209@yandex.ru> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (GSO 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r219573 - head/sbin/geom/class/part X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:58:09 -0000 On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > 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 > => 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." Yes. Thanks, Ben Kaduk