Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/gpt

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Dec 1,  7:13am, jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/gpt

|      Uh, what a silly question.  As you should know, gpt(8) first
| appeared in NetBSD 4.0.  NetBSD-6 has always supported gpt disks.
| My plan was to pullup everything up to the point of toolification
| to netbsd-6.  However, some useful changes have been made since
| then which should also be pulled up.  These changes will likely
| have to be pulled up by patch now.  Even if the new ioctls are
| pulled up to netbsd-6, I would prefer gpt(8) to be able to use the
| older methods, since that doesn't need a kernel upgrade.

Yes, and still the majority of people are not using it because it
is not supported in sysinst, and the kernel/userland support for
wedges in 6 is lacking. You need to be an expert to be able to
use it before 7.

You have to make choices to move ahead; you can keep tons of
backwards compatibility code around (which is conditionally compiled
and not well tested), or you can cleanup the code and make it better
managed and testable for the future.

christos