On 30 November 2015 at 13:34, Christos Zoulas <chris...@zoulas.com> wrote: > > On Nov 29, 11:22pm, jnem...@cue.bc.ca (John Nemeth) wrote: > -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/gpt > > | I have read the Makefile. I think there is confusion between > | the tool version and the crossbuilt version intended to go in the > | release being built. Obviously, the tool version will use the > | system headers, and that may be the one that I saw fail (I don't > | have the log anymore). > > The cross-built version is not affected either. In current it will just > use the ioctls and be happy. In older versions it will use what it had, > since it is not changed. > > | Maybe so, but one could just lift the source code from -current > | and plunk it on an older version of NetBSD and it would just work. > | Now, one can not do that. Having to update the kernel for a > | relatively small userland utility is kind of annoying. > > That's the only disadvantage. Even if you wanted to do this, I am > saying I would prefer that the pullup was done to the kernel to > support the missing ioctls. And we are talking only about NetBSD-6 > where the utility is not that useful, since NetBSD-7 has them. Are > you really planning to support gpt disks on NetBSD-6?
Uh, 3TB disks have been available since 2010, which predates NetBSD-7 by a little bit - and certainly >2TB raid and ccd setups have been around for even longer. While netbsd-7's gpt handling may be much improved, I'm assuming netbsd-6's gpt support is not going to be dropped? :)
