From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 1 3:44:23 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 83E6A37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 03:44:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B9A543E6A for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 03:44:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA20136; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:44:16 +1000 Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:53:43 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP! GEOM as default in 5 days... In-Reply-To: <49659.1033467603@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: <20021001204643.H569-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20021001202451.X479-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: > >On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > >> Provided nothing terminal pops up in the next 5 days, GEOM will > >> become default in -current on Saturday 5th of october. > >> > >> Please test it now on _your_ configuration and tell me if it > >> fails to work. > > > >It failed to understandard the partitions on a normal (sliced) boot > >drive when I tested it a year ago, but I considered this a feature > >since I don't plan to use it. It somehow worked on an (unsliced) > >zip drive on the same machine. > > Thank you for the historical perspective :-) Oops, it was only a while ago (a month or less). GEOM had not been committed a year ago. The IIRC, I was able to mount the root partition using some magic like mounting it as ad0s2 instead of the correct device ad0a. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message