From owner-svn-src-projects@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 14 04:51:51 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-projects@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F91ED79; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:51:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from mail.xcllnt.net (mail.xcllnt.net [70.36.220.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A3016F; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:51:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhcp-192-168-2-58.wifi.xcllnt.net (wifi.xcllnt.net [70.36.220.6] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.xcllnt.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r0E4Yk2H029854 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:34:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Subject: Re: svn commit: r245399 - projects/altix2/sys/geom/part From: Marcel Moolenaar In-Reply-To: <50F34A2B.3080202@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:34:46 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: References: <201301132336.r0DNaLb7038996@svn.freebsd.org> <50F34A2B.3080202@freebsd.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) Cc: svn-src-projects@freebsd.org, "src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG" X-BeenThere: svn-src-projects@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the src " projects" tree" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:51:51 -0000 On Jan 13, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Nathan Whitehorn 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