Activating GEOM_SUNLABEL by default in GENERIC

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 31 09:28:19 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 12:11:46PM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> On 31.07.2015 12:09, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think it would be a good idea to add GEOM_SUNLABEL in the GENERIC kernel.
> > 
> > This would allow the kernel by default to recognize Sun partitions meaning one
> > would import zpools created on top of those patition easily, meaning migrating
> > from Illumos/Solaris to FreeBSD will be a bit more simple.
> > 
> > Is there any know issues with GEOM_SUNLABEL that would make it a bad idea to
> > activate it by default?
> 
> It is deprecated, use GEOM_PART_VTOC8 instead.

Ah yes sorry that is the one I meant, and I used but somehow I couldn't find the
name anymore :(

Thanks for correction

Any issues known with GEOM_PART_VTOC8?

Best regards,
Bapt
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