Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL

[Garrett Cooper]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 1, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Tai-hwa Liang wrote:
>
>> that's too bad.  Since my /home is sitting on the extended partition,
>> the OS won't boot unless the kernel is built with various GEOM_PART_
>> removed from i386/conf/DEFAULT plus GEOM_{BSD,MBR} added back to the
>> kernel configuration file(ie: GENERIC kernel cvsup'ed today doesn't
>> boot).
>
> That sounds like a bug, because logical partitions are
> supported. Can you enable GEOM_PART_BSD, GEOM_PART_EBR
> and GEOM_PART_MBR and tell me which GEOMs are available
> at the mount root prompt?

Wait -- you're saying with the new change I'd have to shuffle around
my data, redo my 3.5 TB RAID6 array, then shuffle it all back, etc?

[gcooper at optimus ~]$ gpart show
=>       63  312581745  ad4  MBR  (149G)
         63  134319402    1  freebsd  [active]  (64G)
  134319465  178257240    2  freebsd  (85G)
  312576705       5103       - free -  (2.5M)

=>        0  134319402  ad4s1  BSD  (64G)
          0   16777216      2  freebsd-swap  (8.0G)
   16777216   16777216      1  freebsd-ufs  (8.0G)
   33554432   16777216      5  freebsd-ufs  (8.0G)
   50331648   33554432      6  freebsd-ufs  (16G)
   83886080   16777216      7  freebsd-ufs  (8.0G)
  100663296   16777216      8  freebsd-ufs  (8.0G)
  117440512   16878890      4  freebsd-ufs  (8.0G)

=>        0  178257240  ad4s2  BSD  (85G)
          0   16777216      4  freebsd-ufs  (8.0G)
   16777216  161480024      5  freebsd-ufs  (77G)

=>        63  4394465208  da0  MBR  (2.0T)
          63  4294961622    1  !131  [active]  (2.0T)
  4294961685    99503586       - free -  (47G)

Btw, what's the replacement for GEOM_* that's getting removed?

Thanks,
-Garrett