Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:58:36 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r195817 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall Message-ID: <4A66D4BC.3030307@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <4A66D0F4.4030108@FreeBSD.org> References: <200907220350.n6M3osaj030202@svn.freebsd.org> <4A66D0F4.4030108@FreeBSD.org>
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Alexander Motin wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> Author: cperciva >> Date: Wed Jul 22 03:50:54 2009 >> New Revision: 195817 >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/195817 >> >> Log: >> Remove the "dedicated disk mode" partitioning option from sysinstall, in >> both the disk partitioning screen (the 'F' key) and via install.cfg (the >> VAR_DEDICATED_DISK option). This functionality is currently broken in 8.x >> due to libdisk and geom generating different partition names; this commit >> merely acts to help steer users away from the breakage. >> >> Submitted by: randi >> Approved by: re (kensmith) >> >> Modified: >> head/usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c > > 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? > I typically tell people to align the first fdisk slice to sector 256 instead of 63. That covers most of the common RAID stripe sizes. I leave it up to someone with more courage than me to code that into sysinstall. Scott
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