GEOM and NetBSD compatibility question

Allan Fields bsd at afields.ca
Fri Aug 20 03:17:48 PDT 2004


On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:23:39AM +0200, Barry Bouwsma wrote:
> [keep replies to the list and I'll catch up later, thanks]
> 
> Servus,
> 
> I had looked at this a couple years ago, without really finding
> a solution, and now I'm experiencing this again when trying to
> use my NetBSD partition under FreeBSD-CURRENT and GEOM.
> 
> I've applied a hack (first proposed a couple years back) which
> allows GEOM to recognize the NetBSD ID.  However, GEOM is getting
> confused by the NetBSD disklabel.

So that there are no dangling references, the patch is likely from thread:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&th=8519d5064d3bb4b1&rnum=1

> [ snip: relative vs. absolute labels... ]
> 
> thanks
> barry bouwsma

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