on 24/05/2011 21:12 Marcel Moolenaar said the following: > With respect to the creation: > > Since out synthesized geometry is not necessarily the same > as other OSes, we could opt to synthesize a geometry that > has a track size (= sectors/track) that is a multiple of 8 > (to play nice with 4K sectors), and/or take the stripe > size of the underlying GEOM into account. This fundamentally > doesn't change a thing for MBR, but has the side effect of > achieving some of the goals *and* automatically works for > EBR as well. > > Thus: rather than hack MBR and forgetting about EBR and other > schemes, maybe we only have to tweak the geometry synthesis > to give people what they want without going over board.
I don't think that currently we do synthesize any geometry in kernel. I think that we just whatever BIOS/firmware/etc provides to us in some way. > After > 9.0 branched, we can do a lot more knowing we have plenty > of soak time... I agree in general, but there is one thing I want now/ASAP - ability to use gpart to create (valid) partitions the way I like it disregarding whatever fake geometry there might be. I hate when tools go EDAVE on me. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
