From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 20:21:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6C31065686; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:21:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout013.mac.com (asmtpout013.mac.com [17.148.16.88]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8DB38FC1D; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:21:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from lynx.jnpr.net (natint3.juniper.net [66.129.224.36]) by asmtp013.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KD200ITUGKFPT20@asmtp013.mac.com>; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:21:52 -0800 (PST) Message-id: From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Marius Strobl In-reply-to: <200901061410.n06EABW2033159@svn.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:21:50 -0800 References: <200901061410.n06EABW2033159@svn.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r186823 - head/sys/geom/part X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:21:56 -0000 On Jan 6, 2009, at 6:10 AM, Marius Strobl wrote: > Author: marius > Date: Tue Jan 6 14:10:10 2009 > New Revision: 186823 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/186823 > > Log: > - Don't enforce an upper-bound to the number of sectors or heads, > allowing the full 16-bit width of the corresponding fields in the > VTOC8 label to be used. The removed limits basically only held > true for providers labeled using the synthetic geometry provided > by cam_calc_geometry(9) but neither SCSI disks labeled with Solaris > nor sufficiently large ATA disks. > - Given that providers (originally) labeled with Solaris typically > use the native geometry as reported by the target while FreeBSD > typically uses a synthetic one put the message complaining about > mismatching geometries between what the label indicates and what > GEOM thinks the provider has, which we generally can't help, > under bootverbose in order to not unnecessarily scare users. > - For informational purposes add the non-matching values to the > message complaining about them, similar to what r186501 did for > g_part_bsd_read() except also indicating the origin of the > values. > - Make it clear that the messages emitted by this code refer to > the VTOC8 support rather than to another existing scheme or to > VTOC32. Thanks! -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com