Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:47:02 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, mav@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, cperciva@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r195817 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall Message-ID: <4A68DA56.60301@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20090723.132350.-432839349.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200907220350.n6M3osaj030202@svn.freebsd.org> <4A66D0F4.4030108@FreeBSD.org> <20090723.132350.-432839349.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <4A66D0F4.4030108@FreeBSD.org> > Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> writes: > : 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? > > The reason we do it like this is because the boot blocks occupy the > first cylinder group. Which with today's fake goemetry is 63 > blocks... > I already covered this. Unfortunately, Randi didn't take my bait. Anyways, '63' is a minimum, it's not a singular value. It's also an incredibly bad default. Scott
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