kern/157724: [geom] gpart(8) 'add' command must preserve gap for schemes

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

On 27.06.2011 22:10, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>  >> There isn't a lot we can do about it. This is one of those
>  >> historical mistakes that you can't fix without breaking with
>  >> 30+ years of history. It's not worth the hassle IMO...
>  > 
>  > Hi, Marcel
>  > 
>  > I think we can just set gpt_first = 16 in g_part_bsd_create for new
>  > tables and for existing tables also set gpt_first = 16 if all partitions
>  > don not use this space. Something like this (untested):
>  
>  You may want to look at /etc/disktab. Are you willing to
>  change all entries and deal with the consequences? :-)

I do not see any problems here especially for gpart(8).
bsdlabel(8) does not use gpart(8), it still can write label directly to
the provider and it will be detected as before.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

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