Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-29 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 28.09.12 11:31, schrieb Steffen Daode Nurpmeso: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl 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

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.org

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-28 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:19:12 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl 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

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-28 Thread Daode
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl 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

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 an...@hesiod.org wrote: ^E my point is that all this information needs to be together in one human and machine

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Daniel Eischen deisc...@freebsd.org 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

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 an...@hesiod.org wrote: … my point

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-17 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

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Jeff Anton an...@hesiod.org 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

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

Re: gpart is junk

2012-09-17 Thread Chris Rees
On 17 Sep 2012 12:58, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl 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.

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 an...@hesiod.org 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