Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 09:00:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: gvrooij@mmra1.ms.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: kern/280: new slice manager totally confused about old slice disks Message-ID: <9503290700.AA23134@mmra1.ms.philips.nl> In-Reply-To: <199503290525.VAA01190@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Mar 28, 95 09:25:09 pm
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> > Aha, ok, this worked for me, I now understand a lot more about the slice > scheme (took only 30 seconds wall clock time and 1 second CPU time). > I still dont get it completely. At first I thought the slices referred to `fdisk partition' and partitions to `BSD partitions'. But now I'm not sure anymore, as I saw slice 5 as well. Or do we support extended slices now? Further: I *know* 2.0R made releases where disklable would complain about partition c and d extending past the end of the drive (due to the total #sec > #secpertrack * #heads * #cyl. I guess the option to use the rest of the drive for a partition took all sectors left, while not checking the consistency of all drive params). How is that handled by this new scheme? > I would suggest documenting the living hell out of this. > Yep. > The gratuitous kernel printfs when accessing the label are a bit much, > do they only happen when booting in verbose mode? > > sd0s1: start 32, end = 511999, size 511968: OK > sd0s4: start 512000, end = 3514367, size 3002368: OK > sd0: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice What exactly does this message mean? And, more important, what are its consequences on operation? > This is not going to be fun to support, but I have to admit that it's > far nicer than the old organization. Kudos to all. > It looks nice at first sight, but I haven't got the feeling that I completely understand it (yet). -Guido
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