on 03/11/2010 08:44 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following: > On 02.11.2010 20:02, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> But I still believe that geom_part_mbr "thinking" that it is smarter than me >> is >> incorrect. Yeah, keep using CHS params for some defaults, etc, but do obey >> what I >> explicitly specify if doesn't violate fundamental constraints like media >> size or >> slice overlaps. > > I think it was done for maximum compatibility. Some utilities assume that > partitions > will be aligned on cylinder boundaries.
Possibly. Those utilities likely need some modernization too. Strictly speaking modern (ATA) drives don't even report any CHS numbers. So we mostly just make up some odd [non-even :-)] numbers and then base pretty important decisions on those made up numbers. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
