Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-04 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:09:22 -0500, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Good. Except that in FreeBSD land you are talking about a slice table. To carry things forward consistently, the partition table is within a slice and describes FreeBSD partitions a..h (and more now I

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Randi Harper ra...@freebsd.org wrote: I'm going to just reply to all of these at once. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:59:42AM -0500, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM,

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread Bob Johnson
On 11/28/09, Peggy Wilkins enli...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone elaborate on what exactly this statement in the 8.0 detailed release notes means? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#FS 2.2.5 File Systems “dangerously dedicated” mode for the UFS file system is no

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:34:05PM -0800, Randi Harper wrote: I'm going to just reply to all of these at once. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:59:42AM -0500, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Peggy

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu 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

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:48:05AM -0800, Randi Harper wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu 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

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 10:30:10AM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On 11/28/09, Peggy Wilkins enli...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone elaborate on what exactly this statement in the 8.0 detailed release notes means? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#FS 2.2.5 File

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:09:22 -0500, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Good. Except that in FreeBSD land you are talking about a slice table. To carry things forward consistently, the partition table is within a slice and describes FreeBSD partitions a..h (and more now I guess). Only in

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-02 Thread George Davidovich
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:34:05PM -0800, Randi Harper wrote: I'm going to just reply to all of these at once. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:59:42AM -0500, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Peggy Wilkins wrote:

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-01 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Peggy Wilkins enli...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone elaborate on what exactly this statement in the 8.0 detailed release notes means? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#FS 2.2.5 File Systems “dangerously dedicated” mode for the UFS

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:59:42AM -0500, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Peggy Wilkins enli...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone elaborate on what exactly this statement in the 8.0 detailed release notes means?

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-01 Thread Randi Harper
I'm going to just reply to all of these at once. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:59:42AM -0500, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Peggy Wilkins enli...@gmail.com wrote: Due to history I won't go into, all

Re: 8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-12-01 Thread Randi Harper
Did you see all the mailing list chatter about new installations failing due to sysinstall not being able to newfs device names that didn't exist? This is related. Also, a partition table isn't just a partition table. It's a little more complex than that. It has *nothing* to do with the

8.0-RELEASE and dangerously dedicated disks

2009-11-28 Thread Peggy Wilkins
Can someone elaborate on what exactly this statement in the 8.0 detailed release notes means? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html#FS 2.2.5 File Systems “dangerously dedicated” mode for the UFS file system is no longer supported. Important: Such disks will need to be