Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:57:23 -0700 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r195817 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall Message-ID: <eaa228be0907220157t6767adbdo77c1bf7144c1095b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A66D0F4.4030108@FreeBSD.org> References: <200907220350.n6M3osaj030202@svn.freebsd.org> <4A66D0F4.4030108@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:42, Alexander Motin<mav@freebsd.org> wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> =A0 Remove the "dedicated disk mode" partitioning option from sysinstall= , in >> =A0 both the disk partitioning screen (the 'F' key) and via install.cfg = (the >> =A0 VAR_DEDICATED_DISK option). =A0This functionality is currently broke= n in 8.x >> =A0 due to libdisk and geom generating different partition names; this c= ommit >> =A0 merely acts to help steer users away from the breakage. > > Is there any other way to not align FS block to the ugly legacy 63 > sectors per track boundary with sysinstall now? I think RAIDs won't be > happy. May be it would be better to fix it? If you're interested in fixing this issue, you might want to look at the need for compatibility names so that existing DD installs aren't broken, and so DD installs work as-is without correcting libdisk's expectations about slice/partition names for DD disks, which is pretty invasive, too. Not breaking new installs by not letting users install broken systems is the absolute bare minimum approach, and given the late date and the lack of movement on the kernel side, I've been advocating for it for a while. See this message and others in the thread for some background: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2009-June/003567.html Juli.
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