Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:02:31 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Peggy Wilkins <enlil65@gmail.com> Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE and "dangerously dedicated" disks Message-ID: <20091202180231.GA44108@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <e277d6c80912020948y23ffd091s7be32c7b560a6643@mail.gmail.com> References: <1789c2360911280928t1e6e7b06p707abc1131f82bef@mail.gmail.com> <26ddd1750912010459weda306esbb81d7a2b7025b6e@mail.gmail.com> <20091201210321.GA39958@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <e277d6c80912012034u4ba1a6fdj97d72f4605bb3e0c@mail.gmail.com> <20091202152336.GA43517@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <e277d6c80912020948y23ffd091s7be32c7b560a6643@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:48:05AM -0800, Randi Harper wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > > Some of the responses have said that UFS handling of 'Dangerously > > dedicated' has not gone away, just sysinstall handling of it. > > That may be true and if that is true, then you can probably still > > access dangerously dedicated drives. But, I would think it is a > > good opportunity to convert them while the uncertainty reigns. > > Once again, it has nothing at all to do with UFS. Clearly you didn't > search the mailing list archives like I said you should. I removed the > support from sysinstall because it was *broken* due to changes with > geom. It is not a sysinstall thing, it's a "oh look, sysinstall lets > you do something that doesn't work anymore" thing. You'd think if the > person that made these changes to sysinstall was commenting on the > issue, that should clear up any uncertainty. But you can go ahead > believing whatever makes you happy. OK. If it is a geom thing, then its a geom thing. The statement that it might be a good time to convert dangerously dedicated disks to sliced and partitioned drives is still the point of the piece you quoted and still is valid. ALthough I have made a few DD disks in the past, I do not run with them and so don't really care other than someone was asking about it. Since I do not use DD disks, I am assuming this doesn't affect me. For someone else, the best thing to do is back up their stuff, rebuild the disk with the appropriate utilities (fdisk/bsdlabel/newfs or whatever works for you) and restore their stuff. ////jerry > > -- randi >
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