naming of the partitions (GEOM_PART_EBR_COMPAT). When
compatibility is enabled, changes to the partitioning are
disallowed.
Remove the device name aliasing added previously to provide
backward compatibility, but which in practice doesn't give
us anything.
Enable compatibility on amd64 and i386.
o EBR uses 32-bit block numbers. Limit the scheme to 2^32-1
blocks when the media is larger.
o Calculate the number of entries based on the rounded media
size, rather than the raw media size.
"raw" names. While there, change the formatting of extended MSDOS partitions
so that the dot (".") is not used to separate two numbers (which kind of
looks like the whole is a decimal number). Use "+" instead, which also
hints that the second part of the name is the offset from the start of
the partition in the first part of the name. Also change the offset from
decimal to hexadecimal notation, simply for aesthetic reasons and future
compatibility.
GEOM_PART is the default in 8-CURRENT but not yet in 7-STABLE so this
changeset can be MFC-ed without causing major problems from the second
part.
Reviewed by: marcel
Approved by: gnn (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
properly. Otherwise the minimum of 1 is used and you can
only insert a single partition/slice and only at sector
0 (index 1).
o When adding a partition/slice, recalculate the index after
the start and size of the partition/slice are adjusted to
make them a multiple of the track size. Since the precheck
method sets the index based on the start of the partition
as provided by the user, we know that we're off by at most
1 and adjusting the index is safe.
1. Extend geom_dev by having it create the symlink (i.e. call
make_dev_alias) based on the DIOCGPROVIDERALIAS ioctl.
In this way the functionaility is generic and thus usable
by any geom/provider.
2. Have g_part handle said ioctl through the devalias method,
so that it's under control of the scheme itself. By design
the alias will not be created for newly added partitions.
found inside extended partitions and used to create logical partitions.
At this time write/modify support is not (yet) present.
The EBR and MBR schemes both check the parent scheme. The MBR will
back-off when nested under another MBR, whereas the EBR only nests
under a MBR.
