Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-29 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 28.09.12 11:31, schrieb Steffen Daode Nurpmeso: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > |>> but still not anywhere as readable as bsdlabel. > |>> > |> > |> I did specifically say 'machine readable'. The XML is well-formed, > |XML is stupid. everything you can do with XML can be better described >

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-28 Thread Daode
Wojciech Puchar wrote: |>> but still not anywhere as readable as bsdlabel. |>> |> |> I did specifically say 'machine readable'. The XML is well-formed, |XML is stupid. everything you can do with XML can be better described |using "ancient" style text format Or, if all fails, YAML-is-JSON,

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-28 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:19:12 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> but still not anywhere as readable as bsdlabel. > > I did specifically say 'machine readable'. The XML is well-formed, > XML is stupid. everything you can do with XML can be better described > using "ancient" style text format

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
but still not anywhere as readable as bsdlabel. I did specifically say 'machine readable'. The XML is well-formed, XML is stupid. everything you can do with XML can be better described using "ancient" style text format ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.or

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Daniel Eischen wrote: >> > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Tom Evans wrote: >> >> The current GEOM configuration is available from a sysctl in machine >> >> readable format - check out kern.geom.confxml. If you are concerned > > > kern.geom.confxml is far from readable. kern

RE: gpart is junk

2012-09-27 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Desmond da Peoples wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Tom Evans wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Jeff Anton wrote: >>> ^E my point is that all this information needs to be >>> together in one human and machine readable for

RE: gpart is junk

2012-09-26 Thread Desmond da Peoples
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:54:41 -0400 From: deisc...@freebsd.org To: tevans...@googlemail.com CC: an...@hesiod.org; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart is junk On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Tom Evans wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Jeff Anton wrote: >> … my point is

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-17 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Tom Evans wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Jeff Anton wrote: … my point is that all this information needs to be together in one human and machine readable form. We need to be able to look at the whole picture of a device and say "that makes sense" then do it. And

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-17 Thread Chris Rees
On 17 Sep 2012 12:58, "Wojciech Puchar" wrote: >> >> IMHO, gpart and GEOM are fantastic. > > > anyway it is MUCH easier and faster to edit disklabels with bsdlabel -e than with gpart. > > Unfortunately since some time bsdlabel cannot edit labels if ANY of partitions are open. You may be more fami

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
IMHO, gpart and GEOM are fantastic. anyway it is MUCH easier and faster to edit disklabels with bsdlabel -e than with gpart. Unfortunately since some time bsdlabel cannot edit labels if ANY of partitions are open. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org m

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Jeff Anton wrote: >… my point is that all this information needs to be > together in one human and machine readable form. We need to be able to look > at the whole picture of a device and say "that makes sense" then do it. And > this shouldn't be from some GUI ju

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-16 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 16.09.2012 23:12, Jeff Anton wrote: > The whole geom system may be very important and may be the way to move > forward. But if it is so > important, it's important to bring forward all the important functionality > that we know from the > past, i.e. fdisk and bsdlabel or their real useful equ