From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 31 01:04:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DA881065670 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:04:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gcubfg-freebsd-geom@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D01588FC19 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:04:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gcubfg-freebsd-geom@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LHpVX-0001ng-UW for freebsd-geom@freebsd.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:04:23 +0000 Received: from 93-138-86-178.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([93.138.86.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:04:23 +0000 Received: from ivoras by 93-138-86-178.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:04:23 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:04:02 +0100 Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <3a142e750812201747o339d7298p11236bb02c7f858f@mail.gmail.com> <20081223050425.GA89448@citylink.fud.org.nz> <6D4A57D3-3F6D-43E6-9B69-95514F69C57A@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1B021865FE229B7064A3433F" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 93-138-86-178.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Sender: news Subject: Re: Changed names of logical disks on recent -CURRENT: part of logical disks not accessible now X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:04:31 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1B021865FE229B7064A3433F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Vadim Goncharov wrote: > Hi Marcel Moolenaar!=20 >=20 > On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:28:14 -0800; Marcel Moolenaar wrote about 'Re: C= hanged names of logical disks on recent -CURRENT: part of logical disks n= ot accessible now': >=20 >> In short: we just need to nail down what we're going to >> fix, if we're going to fix anything, and understand the >> consequences of our choice so that we can document it >> or beter, avoid introducing new bugs in the process.. >=20 > We want to fix POLA violation, i.e. make all that stuff behave as it al= ways > did before (primary from 1 to 4, logical slices from 5 to any). Nothing= more, > because doing something with MBR partitioning nowadays is not worth bec= ause > GPT is already available (MBR is limited to 2 Tb, and disks are growing= ). +1 The old behaviour needs to be restored, whatever the algorithm was. It just isn't worth it to change it even if the change is theoretically for the better. --------------enig1B021865FE229B7064A3433F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklaxQIACgkQldnAQVacBcj34gCdFYZsy9HUPDRpLalEDv57Nf7l q7QAn1KIlRTCrDfTq25lnx/RKBLrGTxD =U3S7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1B021865FE229B7064A3433F--