From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 18 13:16: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F337237B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:16:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from MX4.estpak.ee (ld1.estpak.ee [194.126.101.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A204743E6E for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:16:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kalts@estpak.ee) Received: from tiiu.internal (80-235-44-30-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.44.30]) by MX4.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC881D002A; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:15:53 +0200 (EET) Received: from tiiu.internal (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tiiu.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAILFrWA003959; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:15:53 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vallo@tiiu.internal) Received: (from vallo@localhost) by tiiu.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAILFrdQ003958; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:15:53 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vallo) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:15:52 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Julian Elischer Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Warning messages emitted by disklabel -r Message-ID: <20021118211552.GA3911@tiiu.internal> Reply-To: kalts@estpak.ee References: <20021118195627.GA3309@tiiu.internal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i-ja.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:00:37PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: [snip] > In pre-geom days we had a "realhack" (TM) that would fiddle the > label if you read it direct from the disk. In other words > it "fixed" it to always look (ummmm relative I think) even if you > read it from the raw disk, even if it was in absolute form on the disk. > > Geom (quite correctly) declared this to be a "gross hack" that it would > not perpetuate. As a result, when you read the raw label you see the > "uncorrected version". It's possible that disklabel itself > should be extended to figure out if the label is absolute of relative > and DTRT. Ok, seems not to be over my head. It's confusing to users, that's the only thing I have to say now. Thank you for explanation.0 -- Vallo Kallaste kalts@estpak.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message