glabel "force sectorsize" patch

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 9 14:00:16 UTC 2010


On 9 August 2010 14:37, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
> Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> writes:
>> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
>> > Marius Nünnerich <marius at nuenneri.ch> writes:
>> > > I did not think of a new GEOM class that looks like glabel but one
>> > > that has no metadata stored on disk . It is then activated and
>> > > controlled by loader.conf variables. (Maybe like gnop? If I
>> > > remember correctly, I did not take a look at that class for ages).
>> > As you would know if you had followed the discussion about WD EARS
>> > disks, gnop does what you want and is currently the recommended
>> > solution.
>> Of course, but gnop as a testing GEOM class, does not save its
>> metadata, meaning it has to be reconfigured after reboot, etc.
>
> Please read what Marius wrote, which I quoted above.

You are right, I skipped that part of his message. Gnop fits that.


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