New g_part class

[Ivan Voras]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> You mean writing to sectors which mounted filesystems belive they
> have exclusive use of ?
> 
> No, GEOM doesn't support or allow that.

Ok, the need for sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 arises because the live
system to be used as master has mounted partitions, and those partitions
span the whole disk, thus conflict with gmirror which wants to use the
last sector. Since using the last sector for metadata is The Official
Way, how about making such conflicts easy to avoid, like for example
building additional logic in g_part to create partitions one sector
smaller than the container?

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 250 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/attachments/20070207/a0e992ce/signature.pgp