svn commit: r274661 - in head/sys: conf geom/part modules/geom/geom_part/geom_part_bsd
Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Nov 20 17:23:52 UTC 2014
On Nov 20, 2014, at 8:28 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov <ae at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On 19.11.2014 21:49, Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 19, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov <ae at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 19.11.2014 19:20, Warner Losh wrote:
>>>>> Probably you need to use basetable->gpt_entries here instead of
>>>>> MAXPARTITIONS.
>>>>
>>>> I’m having trouble connecting the dots between GPT and BSDlabels. Why
>>>> would this field be relevant? Is it just poorly named? MAXPARTITIONS
>>>
>>> gpt_entries isn't related to GPT, it is `geom partition table's` number
>>> of partitions entries. Each instance of partition table (i.e. geom) can
>>> have own number of partitions. MBR always has 4, but GPT or BSD can have
>>> different numbers.
>>
>> Ah, OK. Thanks for the explanation. I understand. I’ll work up a patch.
>
> Hi, Warner
>
> since there are some reports about strange behavior of old utilities
> after this commit, maybe we won't repair them by this way?
> What you think about this path?
It doesn’t thrill me. What’s it trying to do? And localizing it to fsck is useless. And where
are these reports?
Warner
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