Re: Wedges & sysinst (Was: Wedges enabled on -current)

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

On Aug 23,  6:20am, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost (Robert Elz) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Wedges & sysinst (Was: Wedges enabled on -current)

| I had been meaning to ask that too, but with a slightly different emphasis.
| 
| I suspect that (instead of enabling auto wedge detection on existing labels
| as the next step forward - ie: undoing what was recently done) sysinst be
| updated (for i386 and amd64 at least) to offer GPT instead of disklabel
| installs (as the default for amd64 & i386 - other ports probably need more
| investigation to see how GPT can fit into the existing partitioning scheme so
| booting still works).
| 
| That will get more people using wedges, in a more natural way than by
| forcing existing labels to convert, and so allow more of the remaining
| other issues to be solved, before breaking things for people with existing
| setups just doing a kernel update.

Could be. The reason for turning it on was really to see what we were missing,
what new problems wedges create, and if and how thy improve the status quo.
For years we have been avoiding the issue....

christos