svn commit: r186823 - head/sys/geom/part
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com
Tue Jan 6 12:21:56 PST 2009
On Jan 6, 2009, at 6:10 AM, Marius Strobl wrote:
> Author: marius
> Date: Tue Jan 6 14:10:10 2009
> New Revision: 186823
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/186823
>
> Log:
> - Don't enforce an upper-bound to the number of sectors or heads,
> allowing the full 16-bit width of the corresponding fields in the
> VTOC8 label to be used. The removed limits basically only held
> true for providers labeled using the synthetic geometry provided
> by cam_calc_geometry(9) but neither SCSI disks labeled with Solaris
> nor sufficiently large ATA disks.
> - Given that providers (originally) labeled with Solaris typically
> use the native geometry as reported by the target while FreeBSD
> typically uses a synthetic one put the message complaining about
> mismatching geometries between what the label indicates and what
> GEOM thinks the provider has, which we generally can't help,
> under bootverbose in order to not unnecessarily scare users.
> - For informational purposes add the non-matching values to the
> message complaining about them, similar to what r186501 did for
> g_part_bsd_read() except also indicating the origin of the
> values.
> - Make it clear that the messages emitted by this code refer to
> the VTOC8 support rather than to another existing scheme or to
> VTOC32.
Thanks!
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Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com
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