From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 1 08:56:10 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 4F0571065676 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:56:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivier@gid0.org) Received: from mail-fx0-f167.google.com (mail-fx0-f167.google.com [209.85.220.167]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B487C8FC14 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:56:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivier@gid0.org) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so2696649fxm.43 for ; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:56:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.113.9 with SMTP id y9mr5938037fap.61.1238576168884; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:56:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090401104856.1feb6a79@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <95891.1238477069@critter.freebsd.dk> <20090331133132.1e191836@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20090331155542.74d89d64@ernst.jennejohn.org> <60084D1E-9F64-463A-A8E9-7A237D5C7661@mac.com> <20090401104856.1feb6a79@ernst.jennejohn.org> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:56:08 +0200 Message-ID: <367b2c980904010156w48c401afo469dca8cb90926e2@mail.gmail.com> From: Olivier SMEDTS To: gary.jennejohn@freenet.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , 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 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 08:56:10 -0000 2009/4/1 Gary Jennejohn : > 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. =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."