Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com
Tue Mar 31 09:01:04 PDT 2009
On Mar 31, 2009, at 6:55 AM, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>>>
>>> I have some disks which were partitioned before GEOM or gpart even
>>> existed. If this means that I can't use them any more I'll be very
>>> ticked off.
>>
>> No, the question is which GEOM class to use to parse the partition
>> table :)
>>
>> gpart is new, shiny, but with some rough edges (most of which have
>> been
>> polished by now), GEOM_xxx were the old classes. 8-CURRENT doesn't
>> use
>> the old classes but they are still there if anyone needs them.
>>
>
> Well, that would be OK then, as long as I can still _use_ the old
> classes
> after the removal of the various GEOM_XXX options.
Why do you want to use the old classes when gpart can be used?
BTW: it was my intention to remove the source files along with
the options. So you wouldn't be able to use the old classes.
FYI,
--
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com
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