From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 23 20:13:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F2561065676; Mon, 23 May 2011 20:13:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.bsdimp.com (bsdimp.com [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED7A8FC08; Mon, 23 May 2011 20:13:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.30.101.53] ([209.117.142.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by harmony.bsdimp.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p4NKAMDh005958 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 23 May 2011 14:10:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <4DDAAB01.1020902@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 14:10:17 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <9D7E6C5D-A581-46A8-A123-FF3DA1E2CB6E@bsdimp.com> References: <201105152003.p4FK3tnS050889@svn.freebsd.org> <20110522093302.GA2638@mole.fafoe.narf.at> <6AE10D76-AC2F-4D7B-A985-EE072949ECC4@xcllnt.net> <42C49AE5-C8EA-44A0-AF88-16130BACE912@bsdimp.com> <4DD9F0A3.701@FreeBSD.org> <4DDAAB01.1020902@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (harmony.bsdimp.com [10.0.0.6]); Mon, 23 May 2011 14:10:25 -0600 (MDT) Cc: Adrian Chadd , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar , "Andrey V. Elsukov" , Stefan Farfeleder , svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r221972 - head/sys/geom/part X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 20:13:00 -0000 On May 23, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > I don't know enough about the topic to know what's "best," however = what I would like to add to the conversation is that it would be nice if = we did it the same way that windows and linux do it, because otherwise = you end up with messages like these: >=20 > GEOM: ad0s2: geometry does not match label (255h,63s !=3D 16h,63s). > GEOM: ad0s3: geometry does not match label (255h,63s !=3D 16h,63s). >=20 > when you use a windows or linux tool to partition your disk before = installing FreeBSD. I have tried various combinations of tools and = methods of slicing the disk and never found a way to avoid error = messages one way or another, so I just ignore them now. >=20 > If there is truly no reason to do it one way or the other, can we = please just do it the way that everyone else does it? These messages can simply be deleted. They serve no purpose at all. = The firmware is reporting a different bogus geometry than the label is = encoded. Alternatively, we could likely supress the warning for the 'it is bigger = than this' encoding of 1023/255/63, since that's the more-or-less = official way of having the MBR report 'saturated'. Warner=