Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL (recap)

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Sep 27 10:11:40 UTC 2009


In message <3a142e750909270133q63062558tf7bab06006e05953 at mail.gmail.com>, "Paul
 B. Mahol" writes:

>geom_part* is going to be only partitioning interface in future.
>So you should really forget about geom_bsd and geom_mbr and try all geom_part*
>modules or if that do not work recreate partitioning table with gpart(8)

I'm pretty certain that Mario has what was until recently a valid
disk configuration which geom_part does not support.

>Older modules are just buggy and provide no additional features.

Apart of course from the historical modes not supported by geom_part
and the fact that hot-spot'ing is not supported and so on...

Lets stick with the facts, should we ?

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