From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 28 10:55:39 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 122BC106566B; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:55:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bu7cher@yandex.ru) Received: from forward4.mail.yandex.net (forward4.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:602::4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679658FC0A; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:55:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp2.mail.yandex.net (smtp2.mail.yandex.net [77.88.46.102]) by forward4.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 75F1C1BC14FD; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:55:36 +0400 (MSK) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1340880936; bh=kNMheJHUaEMTzvKPHev31tS7pLgT9l4B50lgjJkYYnE=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=CkA5JnuoI3UChLdemJ2QhpBMTB0TZZpNhYCfe9qlcP3b8OTBe8VCKVzIPt6fw3ye0 kX6aZByAvhBV939J6Q96VaviZLLXsH5hvwe/oFwnaXhxaMB9oCbuXuJmqNewHRqDF0 0MA441yjQCq87jEENuzKA9KC2vND7yPpbkjizw4I= Received: from smtp2.mail.yandex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id C7AEDE20363; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:55:35 +0400 (MSK) Received: from ns.kirov.so-ups.ru (ns.kirov.so-ups.ru [178.74.170.1]) by smtp2.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTP id tZY43MQ9-tZYqhT8T; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:55:35 +0400 X-Yandex-Rcpt-Suid: wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl X-Yandex-Rcpt-Suid: se@freebsd.org X-Yandex-Rcpt-Suid: marcel@xcllnt.net X-Yandex-Rcpt-Suid: dfr@freebsd.org X-Yandex-Rcpt-Suid: marcel@freebsd.org X-Yandex-Rcpt-Suid: pjd@freebsd.org X-Yandex-Rcpt-Suid: xi@borderworlds.dk X-Yandex-Rcpt-Suid: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Yandex-Rcpt-Suid: avg@freebsd.org X-Yandex-Rcpt-Suid: freebsd-current@freebsd.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail; t=1340880935; bh=kNMheJHUaEMTzvKPHev31tS7pLgT9l4B50lgjJkYYnE=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject: References:In-Reply-To:X-Enigmail-Version:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Ex7NQ9z6k+E/bxRb3YkY7Ckx34LytIPQDsUocXq7d+JNUQZj2zE57wnwDgO7Rk2x0 nfEpLUnzSPtu9aECvySHRm7JXa3pCUtPn4W3hS03yiX1lW6L2/7n+8MxDPMYUB/wBF VaJygmE1O/t9KGhbe6+aEmEixiN/WDZDWneUQTs8= Message-ID: <4FEC3826.1090601@yandex.ru> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:55:34 +0400 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 (FreeBSD/20051231) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wojciech Puchar References: <4FE9B01C.30306@yandex.ru> <201206270807.23347.jhb@freebsd.org> <4FEB0079.7050008@yandex.ru> <201206271028.54477.jhb@freebsd.org> <4FEB5A3C.5050900@borderworlds.dk> <1900D4C1-E5E5-446F-ABBF-976A2DFEB36B@xcllnt.net> <4FEC22A0.9000109@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:41:12 +0000 Cc: Doug Rabson , Marcel Moolenaar , Pawel Jakub Dawidek , Christian Laursen , freebsd-current , freebsd-hackers , Andriy Gapon , Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: [CFC/CFT] large changes in the loader(8) code X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:55:39 -0000 On 28.06.2012 14:35, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Just modify GEOM classes that keep state at the end of a partition to >> leave some spare area *behind* the GEOM data. I.e.: >> > > what is really a problem aat all? > > just leave as is. If someone want's use gpart and mirror then mirroring every partition is simpler. > usually not every partition needs to be mirrored. > > or mirror a whole and make gpart in it, it should still boot fine. I already reverted changes related to the GPT and GEOM metadata detection. > even better - update bsdlabel to work with >2TB devices. > MUCH better. DragonFlyBSD has disklabel64 partitioning scheme. Make a port is simple task. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov