8.0-BETA1 bsdlabel broken?
Eygene Ryabinkin
rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru
Sat Jul 11 23:39:10 UTC 2009
Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 04:07:57PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Jul 11, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> > Different and mostly harmful (as per UPDATING, 20090320) problem.
>
> I think you meant to say harmless and not harmful.
Yes, sorry.
> >> Is it possible sysinstall is a culprit in all this?
> >
> > No, the problem is that bsdlabel is missing the so-called "MBR offset"
> > from GEOM, because in 8.x GEOM_PART_* are used and they have no such
> > geom verb (and anyway, 8.x's bsdlabel queries BSD geoms for it, not
> > the
> > PART_BSD ones).
>
> Actually, yes. This is a problem in sysinstall. The "MBR offset"
> you're talking about does not relate to the geometry of a device.
> It relates to offsets in the disk label.
OK, you're right -- I was talking only about the strange offsets inside
bsdlabel and warnings that come from these offsets. Aragon should see
them if he tries to run bsdlabel from 8.0-BETA1 on the properly
partitioned disks with slices that do not start at 0.
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