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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:24:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/releases/5.0R todo.sgml
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212031222380.17245-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212031206380.17245-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Julian Elischer wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 03-Dec-2002 Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > has it been fixed to handle disks > 1TB yet? (I have 3 here)
> > > (in the disklabel part) libdisk needs to be fixed to stop treating block
> > > numbers and offsets as signed numbers.. (if not yet done)
> > > (the real fix would be to extend it to use u_int64_t and
> > > add a 'gpt' partition option. but htat can wait until
> > > we get CAM support for write16 and read16.)
> > 
> > No, it's not even close.  Do you still have a version of your patch
> > around?  If so, I'll try and update it with the recent changes for you
> > if need be.
> 
> I have changed source (has collissions now unfortunatly)
> for both 4.x and 5.0 on teh test machine biggie.vicor-nb.com
> It is a scratch machine but it has huge (>1TB) disks (3 of them)
> so you can test it there if you want..
> It has an up-to-date (mirrored sevveral times daily
> PLUS whenever you run "cvsup /etc/cvsupfile" CVS tree
> and /usr/src i schecked out.. i.e. a good environment
> 
> give the word and you can have alogin
> 
> in fact you already havea wheel account..
> login jhb
> password sysinstall
> 
> disks twe0, twe1 and da2 are scratch..
> do what you wish with them
> 
> source modified for 4.7 to handle th large disks is in:
> /mnt/usr/src/lib/libdisk
> and
> /mnt/usr/src/release/sysinstall
> (/mnt is a full 4.x world.. cvs works for the sources checked out there
> too. so 'cvs diff' will give teh patches for 4.x.
> 
> the changed sources for 5.x are in /usr/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall.changed
> and /usr/src/lib/libdisk.changed
> 
> but I think that they got filled with collissions when I tried to update
> and the were changed to use 64 bit ints.. a more ambitious change.
> (but it did work before the collisisons)
> 

Actually the origianl 64 bit patches are in /tmp/64bit.diff
and I think there is a less ambitious 32bit version
in /tmp/diffs.current, but I don't remember if I completed them.


> 
> 
> 
> 
> Julian
> 
> > 
> > > On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Robert Watson wrote:
> > > 
> > >> rwatson     2002/12/03 07:41:42 PST
> > >> 
> > >>   Modified files:
> > >>     en/releases/5.0R     todo.sgml 
> > >>   Log:
> > >>   Trim the fdisk editor bug -- it's now been fixed thanks to
> > >>   nyan@ and jhb@.  Thanks guys :-)
> > >>   
> > >>   Revision  Changes    Path
> > >>   1.69      +1 -9      www/en/releases/5.0R/todo.sgml
> > >> 
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
> > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/
> > 
> 
> 


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