Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:35:50 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0904011235x404fc7dbo1918d3dbe7ed645a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0904011233v758d337am5e4252adbe5cf58a@mail.gmail.com> References: <DED07257-A1C7-4504-9A9E-CAAC2A9737D6@mac.com> <95891.1238477069@critter.freebsd.dk> <20090331133132.1e191836@ernst.jennejohn.org> <gqt3um$f77$3@ger.gmane.org> <20090331155542.74d89d64@ernst.jennejohn.org> <60084D1E-9F64-463A-A8E9-7A237D5C7661@mac.com> <0904011910169.29800@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <DC771BC5-F356-4D81-9082-91C922CCBF38@mac.com> <7d6fde3d0904011233v758d337am5e4252adbe5cf58a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 1, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Tai-hwa Liang wrote:
>>
>>> that's too bad. Since my /home is sitting on the extended partition,
>>> the OS won't boot unless the kernel is built with various GEOM_PART_
>>> removed from i386/conf/DEFAULT plus GEOM_{BSD,MBR} added back to the
>>> kernel configuration file(ie: GENERIC kernel cvsup'ed today doesn't
>>> boot).
>>
>> That sounds like a bug, because logical partitions are
>> supported. Can you enable GEOM_PART_BSD, GEOM_PART_EBR
>> and GEOM_PART_MBR and tell me which GEOMs are available
>> at the mount root prompt?
>
> Wait -- you're saying with the new change I'd have to shuffle around
> my data, redo my 3.5 TB RAID6 array, then shuffle it all back, etc?
>
> [gcooper@optimus ~]$ gpart show
> => 63 312581745 ad4 MBR (149G)
> 63 134319402 1 freebsd [active] (64G)
> 134319465 178257240 2 freebsd (85G)
> 312576705 5103 - free - (2.5M)
>
> => 0 134319402 ad4s1 BSD (64G)
> 0 16777216 2 freebsd-swap (8.0G)
> 16777216 16777216 1 freebsd-ufs (8.0G)
> 33554432 16777216 5 freebsd-ufs (8.0G)
> 50331648 33554432 6 freebsd-ufs (16G)
> 83886080 16777216 7 freebsd-ufs (8.0G)
> 100663296 16777216 8 freebsd-ufs (8.0G)
> 117440512 16878890 4 freebsd-ufs (8.0G)
>
> => 0 178257240 ad4s2 BSD (85G)
> 0 16777216 4 freebsd-ufs (8.0G)
> 16777216 161480024 5 freebsd-ufs (77G)
>
> => 63 4394465208 da0 MBR (2.0T)
> 63 4294961622 1 !131 [active] (2.0T)
> 4294961685 99503586 - free - (47G)
>
> Btw, what's the replacement for GEOM_* that's getting removed?
Or to sum it up a bit better:
1. What's getting removed and why?
2. What's it being replaced with?
3. How do I migrate from the old system to the new one?
I don't see that information in the initial warning email.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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