Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:43:04 -0500 (EST) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> Cc: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r219573 - head/sbin/geom/class/part Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1103121641500.19944@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <4D7BB726.3000209@yandex.ru> References: <201103121705.p2CH5IPs025002@svn.freebsd.org> <AANLkTikEDBESCfPyRcYJO3-PX%2BP4jC5wHtoHWV_k_Mov@mail.gmail.com> <4D7BB726.3000209@yandex.ru>
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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
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