On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Nick Holland wrote:
On 02/15/12 03:23, David Vasek wrote:
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Nick Holland wrote:
Just put the fdisk partition in place on every disk you want to use on an
i386/amd64 and all other fdisk platforms. There are no good reasons not to,
there are a lot of good reasons to do so. All the tools assume this is how
the system is laid out...they are not tested otherwise. ...
Do softraid disks and vnd's count as disks here too? Thanks.
Regards,
David
the softraid(4) man page says so, so guess what my answer is? :)
What's the issue with doing things as advised?
What is the goal?
Bragging rights? "look what I got away with!"?
Not worth it.
[note: there is some question if this is desired in non-fdisk platforms,
but that's not the OP's question...and the man page still says use it]
The man page does not say anything about fdisk, it only appears in the
example. Not everything that appears in examples is advisable to follow.
In contrast, Marco, as the author of softraid(4), says the opposite about
use of fdisk, even on the physical disks. And what he says is more recent
than the example in the softraid(4) man page.
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=128847054226289&w=2
My thought is that MBR partition (DOS partition) is only needed for
compatibility with other OS's in case they come in touch with the disk.
And probability of such encounter in case of softraid disks and vnd's
is... quite low at best.
Regards,
David
