svn commit: r219573 - head/sbin/geom/class/part

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:

> On 12.03.2011 20:15, Ben Kaduk wrote:
>> I think just "enables backward compatibility" is more standard English
>> usage.  Not knowing much about the EBR scheme, I would also guess that
>> "for partition names in the EBR scheme" is what is intended here, but
>> that would be something of a guess.
>
> Partitions from EBR have names like they were in FreeBSD prior to
> GEOM_PART. E.g. ad0s5, ad0s6,... But without this option they may be
> like these:
>> gpart show -p ada2s3
> =>         0  1830660048           ada2s3  EBR  (873G)
>           0    17767890  ada2s3+00000001  !6  (8.5G)
>    17767890         189                   - free -  (95K)
>    17768079     1023939  ada2s3+00282034  ntfs  (500M)
>    18792018  1481207994                   - free -  (706G)
>  1500000012     1023939  ada2s3+23809525  fat32  (500M)
>  1501023951      204750  ada2s3+23825778  fat32  (100M)
>  1501228701   329431347                   - free -  (157G)
>> ls -1 /dev/ada2s3*
> /dev/ada2s3
> /dev/ada2s3+00000001
> /dev/ada2s3+00282034
> /dev/ada2s3+23809525
> /dev/ada2s3+23825778
>
> So, do you recommend to change first sentence to:
> "The GEOM_PART_EBR_COMPAT option enables backward compatibility for
> partition names in the EBR scheme."

Yes.


Thanks,

Ben Kaduk