Re: Geom disklabel/fdisk issues?

2003-01-13 Thread phk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, walt writes: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Julian Elischer writes: >> >>>I think that one of the things we need to do is declare a new flag in >>>disklabel that declares that the disklabel has been converted to use >>>relative offsets... > >> Better plan: Abandon BS

Re: Geom disklabel/fdisk issues?

2003-01-13 Thread Peter Wemm
Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, walt wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Julian Elischer writes: > > > > > >>I think that one of the things we need to do is declare a new flag in > > >>disklabel that declares that the disklabel has been converted to use > > >>relative

Re: Geom disklabel/fdisk issues?

2003-01-13 Thread Julian Elischer
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, walt wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Julian Elischer writes: > > > >>I think that one of the things we need to do is declare a new flag in > >>disklabel that declares that the disklabel has been converted to use > >>relative offsets... > > > Better plan: Abandon BSD

Re: Geom disklabel/fdisk issues?

2003-01-13 Thread walt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Elischer writes: I think that one of the things we need to do is declare a new flag in disklabel that declares that the disklabel has been converted to use relative offsets... Better plan: Abandon BSD labels before disks outgrow them. To be replaced bywh

Re: Geom disklabel/fdisk issues?

2003-01-13 Thread Julian Elischer
I agree with that too. On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ju > lian Elischer writes: > > > >I think that one of the things we need to do is declare a new flag in > >disklabel that declares that the disklabel has been converted to use > >relative offset

Re: Geom disklabel/fdisk issues?

2003-01-13 Thread phk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ju lian Elischer writes: > >I think that one of the things we need to do is declare a new flag in >disklabel that declares that the disklabel has been converted to use >relative offsets. if the flag is not set then absolute offsets are >expected.. That would give a w

Re: Geom disklabel/fdisk issues?

2003-01-13 Thread Julian Elischer
I think that one of the things we need to do is declare a new flag in disklabel that declares that the disklabel has been converted to use relative offsets. if the flag is not set then absolute offsets are expected.. That would give a way for us to move forward while still allowing partitions to c