Hi Theo, it's a long time since we last conversed. On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 03:44:17PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > What user without OpenBSD experience is booting from 'd'? > > Which also poses the question -- what user with OpenBSD experience > is booting from 'd'? > > Why?
Some disklabel partitions have traditionally had specific meanings: a - root fs b - swap c - whole disk d - on non-OpenBSD systems is 'whole disk' where c is not i - often used for non FFS partitions on OpenBSD Why would you automatically make a RAID as parition 'a'? It's not a root fs. I don't see any logic behind RAID partition = 'a'. What if you want more than one? Booting from non-'a' softraids has never been discouraged on amd64. It's been noted that on other archs it doesn't work, but there has never been a general advisory that booting from softraid volumes should only be done from 'a'. > You say "quite possible that people have machines deployed that boot > from other RAID partitions" After 10+ years of it working, do you really think that nobody has ever done it? > Who? Just you? If it's just me, I can easy fix my own machine.
