From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 25 07:01:25 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 EC37216A4CE for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 07:01:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B86C43D49 for ; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 07:01:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8P71MjE063061; Sat, 25 Sep 2004 09:01:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Paul Mather From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:10:36 EDT." <1096063835.9306.130.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 09:01:22 +0200 Message-ID: <63060.1096095682@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk 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: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 07:01:26 -0000 In message <1096063835.9306.130.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>, Paul Mather writes : >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. yes. >I'm presuming sysinstall-style partition-a-starts-at-offset-0 labels are >still safe, though, right? As "safe" as they always were, which means "not very". They have a tendency to blow up on people if they try to change them. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.