svn commit: r245399 - projects/altix2/sys/geom/part

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 01/13/13 20:34, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Jan 13, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> Why not make this a GEOM flag?
> 
> It just needs to work. It's unreasonable to put the burden
> on users/operators. It took me a long time to figure out
> why 1) EFI didn't see the partitions, and 2) EFI wouldn't
> mount the FAT32 file system.
> 
> The first was the result of the active flag being set --
> go figure. The second was the result of the partition not
> being aligned to a track boundary -- which is interesting
> in light of all the claims and statements about geometry
> being a thing of the past and totally irrelevant...
> 
> I at least have the advantage of knowing the code and
> knowing what changes I could try to make it work -- it's
> not the same for mere end-users. They'll be stuck and as
> such look for a solution in other OSes.
> 

Sounds reasonable. Thanks for the explanation! It might be nice to still
have a flag to override the default setting on a per-device basis for
power users who know they want a particular behavior, but it's not a big
deal.
-Nathan