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Date:      Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:44:58 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Cc:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Subject:   Re: kern.geom.debugflags=16 does NOT allow me to write to device
Message-ID:  <201004230844.58047.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BD191CF.40106@icyb.net.ua>
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On Friday 23 April 2010 8:25:51 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 23/04/2010 13:34 Peter Schuller said the following:
> >> It's easy.
> > 
> > Thank you for posting the example. I never really understood that
> > gpart was to be the generic tool; I thought it was gpt specific.
> > Obviously I should have read up better.
> > 
> > Is gpart to be considered "tested", "stable", "production quality"
> > and/or "default" now then, or is it still cutting edge/experimental?
> 
> Yes, it's "tested", "stable", "production quality" and/or "default".
> All other tools are slowly rotting now, but can be fixed to correctly works via
> GEOM interface the same way gpart does now.
> E.g. see Andrey's work on sade(8).

Actually, the other tools were already fixed to work properly with GEOM, but
they used the older set of GEOM classes (GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, etc.) instead
of the GEOM_PART classes.

-- 
John Baldwin



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