Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:30:47 -0700 (MST) From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com Cc: des@des.no, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] NetBSD disklabel support for geom_bsd Message-ID: <20060317.163047.115953468.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A605F5A0@royal64.emp.zapto.org> References: <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A605F5A0@royal64.emp.zapto.org>
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From: "Daniel Eriksson" <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com> Subject: RE: [patch] NetBSD disklabel support for geom_bsd Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:47:08 +0100 > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > It is still possible to create dangerously dedicated disks, btw, and > > it is still possible to put a disklabel (or even a filesystem) > > directly on a device. GEOM means *more* freedom, not less. > > I've been putting filesystems directly on devices for some time now. Are there any drawbacks to doing this? You likely aren't putting them directly on devices, but rather using FreeBSD's hack MBR which geom knows to ignore... Disks w/o MBR can confuse some BIOSes that try to be too smart. Disks with our fake MBR can confuse a different set of BIOSes... The only sure way is to use a real MBR. Warnerhelp
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