Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 23:46:57 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: gvrooij@mmra1.ms.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: kern/280: new slice manager totally confused about old slice disks Message-ID: <199503290746.XAA00441@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Mar 1995 09:00:39 %2B0200." <9503290700.AA23134@mmra1.ms.philips.nl>
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From: gvrooij@mmra1.ms.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Subject: Re: kern/280: new slice manager totally confused about old slice dis >>ks > > Aha, ok, this worked for me, I now understand a lot more about the slice > scheme (took only 30 seconds wall clock time and 1 second CPU time). > I still dont get it completely. At first I thought the slices referred to `fdisk partition' and partitions to `BSD partitions'. But now I'm not sure anymore, as I saw slice 5 as well. Or do we support extended slices now? Yes, and they seem to even work. :-) Further: I *know* 2.0R made releases where disklable would complain about partition c and d extending past the end of the drive (due to the total #sec > #secpertrack * #heads * #cyl. I guess the option to use the rest of the drive for a partition took all sectors left, while not checking the consistency of all drive params). How is that handled by this new scheme? Dunno... Bruce? > I would suggest documenting the living hell out of this. > Yep. > The gratuitous kernel printfs when accessing the label are a bit much, > do they only happen when booting in verbose mode? > > sd0s1: start 32, end = 511999, size 511968: OK > sd0s4: start 512000, end = 3514367, size 3002368: OK > sd0: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice What exactly does this message mean? And, more important, what are its consequences on operation? Yes, the message is quite ambiguious and the printf's are debugging and need to go. > This is not going to be fun to support, but I have to admit that it's > far nicer than the old organization. Kudos to all. > It looks nice at first sight, but I haven't got the feeling that I completely understand it (yet). -Guido
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