Re: Removal of GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR, GEOM_PC98 and GEOM_SUNLABEL

From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:35:50 -0700
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt_at_mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 1, 2009, at 4:16 AM, Tai-hwa Liang wrote:
>>
>>> that's too bad.  Since my /home is sitting on the extended partition,
>>> the OS won't boot unless the kernel is built with various GEOM_PART_
>>> removed from i386/conf/DEFAULT plus GEOM_{BSD,MBR} added back to the
>>> kernel configuration file(ie: GENERIC kernel cvsup'ed today doesn't
>>> boot).
>>
>> That sounds like a bug, because logical partitions are
>> supported. Can you enable GEOM_PART_BSD, GEOM_PART_EBR
>> and GEOM_PART_MBR and tell me which GEOMs are available
>> at the mount root prompt?
>
> Wait -- you're saying with the new change I'd have to shuffle around
> my data, redo my 3.5 TB RAID6 array, then shuffle it all back, etc?
>
> [gcooper_at_optimus ~]$ gpart show
> =>       63  312581745  ad4  MBR  (149G)
>         63  134319402    1  freebsd  [active]  (64G)
>  134319465  178257240    2  freebsd  (85G)
>  312576705       5103       - free -  (2.5M)
>
> =>        0  134319402  ad4s1  BSD  (64G)
>          0   16777216      2  freebsd-swap  (8.0G)
>   16777216   16777216      1  freebsd-ufs  (8.0G)
>   33554432   16777216      5  freebsd-ufs  (8.0G)
>   50331648   33554432      6  freebsd-ufs  (16G)
>   83886080   16777216      7  freebsd-ufs  (8.0G)
>  100663296   16777216      8  freebsd-ufs  (8.0G)
>  117440512   16878890      4  freebsd-ufs  (8.0G)
>
> =>        0  178257240  ad4s2  BSD  (85G)
>          0   16777216      4  freebsd-ufs  (8.0G)
>   16777216  161480024      5  freebsd-ufs  (77G)
>
> =>        63  4394465208  da0  MBR  (2.0T)
>          63  4294961622    1  !131  [active]  (2.0T)
>  4294961685    99503586       - free -  (47G)
>
> Btw, what's the replacement for GEOM_* that's getting removed?

Or to sum it up a bit better:
1. What's getting removed and why?
2. What's it being replaced with?
3. How do I migrate from the old system to the new one?

I don't see that information in the initial warning email.

Thanks,
-Garrett
Received on Wed Apr 01 2009 - 17:35:50 UTC

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