Is anything being done to un-break partition names?

[Juli Mallett]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 13:38, Marcel Moolenaar<xcllnt at mac.com> wrote:
> That introduces significant breakages in normal setups.
> The priority should not be changed. It's resulting in
> the right behaviour and any exceptions to that (i.e.
> we need the wrong behaviour) should be coded explicitly.
>
> The closest we can get is by having the BSD disklabel
> code check if there are valid MBR partitions defined
> and if yes, back-off. This covers exactly the problem
> case and doesn't introduce false negatives in other
> scenarios.

Are there any efforts outstanding to do this for 8.0?  Or did it get
done and I missed it?

> But: we should fix sysinstall as well. Either we should
> finally rip out DD or we should have it create proper
> DD images...

Perhaps randi@ will take a look; she's been working on nearby parts of
sysinstall for a while.  Adding her to CC since I don't know if she
reads geom at .