kern.geom.debugflags=16 does NOT allow me to write to device

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 23 April 2010 8:25:51 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 23/04/2010 13:34 Peter Schuller said the following:
> >> It's easy.
> > 
> > Thank you for posting the example. I never really understood that
> > gpart was to be the generic tool; I thought it was gpt specific.
> > Obviously I should have read up better.
> > 
> > Is gpart to be considered "tested", "stable", "production quality"
> > and/or "default" now then, or is it still cutting edge/experimental?
> 
> Yes, it's "tested", "stable", "production quality" and/or "default".
> All other tools are slowly rotting now, but can be fixed to correctly works via
> GEOM interface the same way gpart does now.
> E.g. see Andrey's work on sade(8).

Actually, the other tools were already fixed to work properly with GEOM, but
they used the older set of GEOM classes (GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, etc.) instead
of the GEOM_PART classes.

-- 
John Baldwin