Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:56:08 +0200 From: Olivier SMEDTS <olivier@gid0.org> To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL Message-ID: <367b2c980904010156w48c401afo469dca8cb90926e2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090401104856.1feb6a79@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <DED07257-A1C7-4504-9A9E-CAAC2A9737D6@mac.com> <95891.1238477069@critter.freebsd.dk> <20090331133132.1e191836@ernst.jennejohn.org> <gqt3um$f77$3@ger.gmane.org> <20090331155542.74d89d64@ernst.jennejohn.org> <60084D1E-9F64-463A-A8E9-7A237D5C7661@mac.com> <20090401104856.1feb6a79@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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2009/4/1 Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>: > On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:00:55 -0700 > Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> 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. =A0If this means that I can't use them any more I'll be ver= y >> >>> 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? You won't have to relabel 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. =A0They may just > still work. > > At the moment I see complaints about geometry and rawoffset. =A0As 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " > --=20 Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: olivier@gid0.org - against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org - against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas."
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