From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 22:10:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A197416A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:10:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gromit.dlib.vt.edu (gromit.dlib.vt.edu [128.173.49.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B8F43D45 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:10:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from hawkwind.Chelsea-Ct.Org (pool-151-199-91-61.roa.east.verizon.net [151.199.91.61]) by gromit.dlib.vt.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8OMAgen016433 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:10:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.25] (zappa [192.168.1.25])i8OMAaXG006332; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:10:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Mather To: Poul-Henning Kamp In-Reply-To: <54732.1096062623@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <54732.1096062623@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1096063835.9306.130.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:10:36 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org cc: Chris Elsworth Subject: Re: WARNING: Expected rawoffset 0, found 63 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:10:45 -0000 On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 17:50, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <1096056348.9306.87.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>, Paul Mather writes: > >I believe the above is bsdlabel's idea of an "auto" label. I don't know > >why the 16 sector offset for the "a" partition, because you don't get > >that when you label a slice via sysinstall and choose the "auto > >defaults." (Maybe there's a case for making bsdlabel's "auto" label > >behave the same as sysinstall.) > > The 16 offset is to protect the disklabel and boot code. You have no > idea how much I hate the person who made the hack to leave the metadata > inside the trafic partitions. So I guess the case to be made is really to have sysinstall behave the same as bsdlabel, not vice versa. I'm presuming sysinstall-style partition-a-starts-at-offset-0 labels are still safe, though, right? Cheers, Paul. -- e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --- Frank Vincent Zappa