On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:48:05AM -0800, Randi Harper wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Jerry McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some of the responses have said that UFS handling of 'Dangerously > > dedicated' has not gone away, just sysinstall handling of it. > > That may be true and if that is true, then you can probably still > > access dangerously dedicated drives. But, I would think it is a > > good opportunity to convert them while the uncertainty reigns. > > Once again, it has nothing at all to do with UFS. Clearly you didn't > search the mailing list archives like I said you should. I removed the > support from sysinstall because it was *broken* due to changes with > geom. It is not a sysinstall thing, it's a "oh look, sysinstall lets > you do something that doesn't work anymore" thing. You'd think if the > person that made these changes to sysinstall was commenting on the > issue, that should clear up any uncertainty. But you can go ahead > believing whatever makes you happy.
OK. If it is a geom thing, then its a geom thing. The statement that it might be a good time to convert dangerously dedicated disks to sliced and partitioned drives is still the point of the piece you quoted and still is valid. ALthough I have made a few DD disks in the past, I do not run with them and so don't really care other than someone was asking about it. Since I do not use DD disks, I am assuming this doesn't affect me. For someone else, the best thing to do is back up their stuff, rebuild the disk with the appropriate utilities (fdisk/bsdlabel/newfs or whatever works for you) and restore their stuff. ////jerry > > -- randi > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
