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Date:      Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:49:58 +0400
From:      Eir Nym <eirnym@gmail.com>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/157724: [geom] gpart(8) 'add' command must preserve gap for schemes
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In-Reply-To: <4E098651.6020909@yandex.ru>
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2011/6/28 Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher@yandex.ru>:
> On 28.06.2011 9:10, Eir Nym wrote:
>> =C2=A0according [1] and bsdlabel(8), we can preserve 0 if we use ZFS (th=
is
>> =C2=A0filesystem have space for boot code), and 8k for UFS (this filesys=
tem
>> =C2=A0have no space for boot code).
>>
>> =C2=A0So if we install UFS without boot, can we preserve no gap?
>>
>> =C2=A0[1]: [http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition]
>
> You can use UFS and swap without offset too.
>

So we have answer what to do: we should document this gap for bootable
UFS. I think boot(8) and gpart(8) man page is the best place to do
this.
But boot loader install process for ZFS should be documented in man page to=
o.

-- Eir Nym

> --
> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
>



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