kern/157724: [geom] gpart(8) 'add' command must preserve gap
for schemes
Eir Nym
eirnym at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 07:50:19 UTC 2011
2011/6/28 Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher at yandex.ru>:
> On 28.06.2011 9:10, Eir Nym wrote:
>> according [1] and bsdlabel(8), we can preserve 0 if we use ZFS (this
>> filesystem have space for boot code), and 8k for UFS (this filesystem
>> have no space for boot code).
>>
>> So if we install UFS without boot, can we preserve no gap?
>>
>> [1]: [http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition]
>
> You can use UFS and swap without offset too.
>
So we have answer what to do: we should document this gap for bootable
UFS. I think boot(8) and gpart(8) man page is the best place to do
this.
But boot loader install process for ZFS should be documented in man page too.
-- Eir Nym
> --
> WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
>
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