From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 1 08:49:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA72106566B for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:49:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from mout2.freenet.de (mout2.freenet.de [IPv6:2001:748:100:40::2:4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 566BB8FC1E for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:49:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) Received: from [195.4.92.12] (helo=2.mx.freenet.de) by mout2.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #79) id 1Low83-0001Md-7n; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:48:59 +0200 Received: from tf73b.t.pppool.de ([89.55.247.59]:55329 helo=ernst.jennejohn.org) by 2.mx.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID gary.jennejohn@freenet.de) (port 25) (Exim 4.69 #79) id 1Low81-0006Xv-6u; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:48:57 +0200 Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:48:56 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <20090401104856.1feb6a79@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <60084D1E-9F64-463A-A8E9-7A237D5C7661@mac.com> References: <95891.1238477069@critter.freebsd.dk> <20090331133132.1e191836@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20090331155542.74d89d64@ernst.jennejohn.org> <60084D1E-9F64-463A-A8E9-7A237D5C7661@mac.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:49:01 -0000 On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:00:55 -0700 Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2009, at 6:55 AM, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > >>> > >>> I have some disks which were partitioned before GEOM or gpart even > >>> existed. If this means that I can't use them any more I'll be very > >>> ticked off. > >> > >> No, the question is which GEOM class to use to parse the partition > >> table :) > >> > >> gpart is new, shiny, but with some rough edges (most of which have > >> been > >> polished by now), GEOM_xxx were the old classes. 8-CURRENT doesn't > >> use > >> the old classes but they are still there if anyone needs them. > >> > > > > Well, that would be OK then, as long as I can still _use_ the old > > classes > > after the removal of the various GEOM_XXX options. > > Why do you want to use the old classes when gpart can be used? > Because the disks were already labeled long ago and I do not want to risk blowing them away by relabeling them? I must admit that I'm not sure whether that would really be a problem since I haven't wanted to risk trying it with gpart. They may just still work. At the moment I see complaints about geometry and rawoffset. As long as the complaints remain complaints and everything still works then I won't care about the change. > BTW: it was my intention to remove the source files along with > the options. So you wouldn't be able to use the old classes. > Hmm. --- Gary Jennejohn