Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:02:29 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: geom_part_mbr vs user Message-ID: <4CD04425.4020204@icyb.net.ua>
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It seems that geom_part_mbr: 1. uses CHS for some things 2. insists that various things be "CHS-aligned" While 1 is quite acceptable (although perhaps useless), 2 seems to be unhelpful (and even annoying). E.g. I wanted to create a partition that starts at sector 64, but that was auto-magically and silently converted to 126 (2x63). It took me a while to realize what's going on. Using some greater starting sector (like 8x63) did work. But I still believe that geom_part_mbr "thinking" that it is smarter than me is incorrect. Yeah, keep using CHS params for some defaults, etc, but do obey what I explicitly specify if doesn't violate fundamental constraints like media size or slice overlaps. -- Andriy Gapon
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