From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 1 11:32:36 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 E54DD106564A for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:32:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw) Received: from www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw (www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw [140.138.150.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C668FC1B for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:32:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw) Received: by www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw (qmail, from userid 1000) id D46D2E43405; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 19:16:34 +0800 (CST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw; s=test; t=1238584594; bh=wo+Ol4b9XnZaMNkVHYpFYPd/bc9jrqSEw6e50FudxUU=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=iWOnZ63LC8dagsmHOu8PVgQwBLhGXI/U6VYHgVfYndEVSkFwgxl6rNpOdabJ73O/J VB4q+h8SSKL/EY509CVHdURuxkD97VSzgaxGrJ3+TKwaqw8wDGyoOl4+SRCF/aYA1q x/t/NgNJ2pbFwRmcZBPobH4Zv42gP9ejNHI0qHMM= Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw (qmail) with ESMTP id D2A95E43403; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 19:16:34 +0800 (CST) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 19:16:34 +0800 (CST) From: Tai-hwa Liang To: Marcel Moolenaar In-Reply-To: <60084D1E-9F64-463A-A8E9-7A237D5C7661@mac.com> Message-ID: <0904011910169.29800@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> References: <95891.1238477069@critter.freebsd.dk> <20090331133132.1e191836@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20090331155542.74d89d64@ernst.jennejohn.org> <60084D1E-9F64-463A-A8E9-7A237D5C7661@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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 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 11:32:37 -0000 On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, 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? > > 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. That's too bad. Since my /home is sitting on the extended partition, the OS won't boot unless the kernel is built with various GEOM_PART_ removed from i386/conf/DEFAULT plus GEOM_{BSD,MBR} added back to the kernel configuration file(ie: GENERIC kernel cvsup'ed today doesn't boot). # gpart show => 0 31250961 ad0s7c BSD (15G) 0 31250945 1 freebsd-ufs (15G) 31250945 16 - free - (8.0K) => 0 16783200 ad0s2c BSD (8.0G) 0 786432 1 freebsd-ufs (384M) 786432 4194304 2 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 4980736 393216 4 freebsd-ufs (192M) 5373952 11409248 5 freebsd-ufs (5.4G) -- Cheers, Tai-hwa Liang