glabel "force sectorsize" patch

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 9 10:51:23 UTC 2010


On 9 August 2010 10:51, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
> 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.

> I am looking into a permanent solution and would appreciate if people
> held off on this for a couple of weeks.

Thank you!


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