GEOM_ELI in sysinstall?

Adam Wood aswood at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 16:15:22 UTC 2006


Hello,

I was browsing around the various websites on
http://people.freebsd.org/ and stumbled upon the following patch for
sysinstall:

http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/sysinstall.vinum.patch

As I'm sure you can infer from the filename, it allows the standard
FreeBSD sysinstall utility to manipulate vinum configurations. Please
pardon my ignorance, as I'm still very new to these low-level
concepts, but would it be possible to create a similar patch for
GEOM_ELI configurations?

Would it be as simple as defining it as an available type? Or must
other considerations be made?

It seems the above-referenced patch deals only with the labelling,
which means a new patch would be necessary to allow the .eli disk to
be selected in the first place. After that though, wouldn't everything
"just work"?

Sincerely,

Adam Wood


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