Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:34:46 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-projects@freebsd.org, "src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG" <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r245399 - projects/altix2/sys/geom/part Message-ID: <ADC170C3-3954-4080-9190-A44C41500DC0@xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <50F34A2B.3080202@freebsd.org> References: <201301132336.r0DNaLb7038996@svn.freebsd.org> <50F34A2B.3080202@freebsd.org>
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On Jan 13, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > Why not make this a GEOM flag? It just needs to work. It's unreasonable to put the burden on users/operators. It took me a long time to figure out why 1) EFI didn't see the partitions, and 2) EFI wouldn't mount the FAT32 file system. The first was the result of the active flag being set -- go figure. The second was the result of the partition not being aligned to a track boundary -- which is interesting in light of all the claims and statements about geometry being a thing of the past and totally irrelevant... I at least have the advantage of knowing the code and knowing what changes I could try to make it work -- it's not the same for mere end-users. They'll be stuck and as such look for a solution in other OSes. -- Marcel Moolenaar marcel@xcllnt.net
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