From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 09:07:46 2011 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 6EF9310656E0 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:07:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joh.hendriks@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 076248FC12 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyd10 with SMTP id 10so2091875eyd.13 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:07:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QW3FXaAp6lFWREzoHERuMHE8BdQCWpt9Q/DXArDUWoQ=; b=gH4Iba838sRSssaiLT3SV+JDFQje1nyuNP9/+wNftxrKIICAUqRnCOmImJt6AO3Pp2 00DHl9fYhMRf43WUp9M2Kz4VZOXWVGNi52ReyfNBTGa/YtF/Fnt1KMBOSPziTUXhRBtW VDbhC6+/b47aWvvjbdmQxhFqD8Mn4sjMg+2mY= Received: by 10.213.112.200 with SMTP id x8mr492584ebp.12.1318495167804; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.129] (schavemaker.nl. [213.84.84.186]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w58sm12315013eeb.4.2011.10.13.01.39.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E96A3BD.3080002@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:39:25 +0200 From: Johan Hendriks User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 9.x installer and GPT vs geom 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, 13 Oct 2011 09:07:46 -0000 Hello all. I just used the 9.0 B3 installer, and it defaults to GPT, which is nice. However, and there has been some discussions about it, it would be nice if the installer warns me that i could get in trouble if i want to use gmirror and the like. Also i find it a little strange that the default mode, GPT in this case is in some sort not compatible with the other default geom structure. For a newcomer or for people who use gmirror and glabel on a regular basis because there somewhat default, it could strike them if they start using the default GPT. It is not logical. Two default ways to do things that are in a way not compatible. So a warning at the installer level could make a lot of users aware of this, and they can decide what to do, use GPT or go back to the old MBR. They can start looking at the mailling list and so on to make the right decision is GPT acceptable for me or not. And not install FreeBSD and find out later that you could not use your old gmirror and glabel tactics without corrupting the GPT structure. Just my thoughts about this. regards, Johan Hendriks