No FreeBSD version bump, the userland application to query the features will
be committed last and can serve as an indication of the availablility if
needed.
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2010
Submitted by: kibab
Reviewed by: silence on geom@ during 2 weeks
X-MFC after: to be determined in last commit with code from this project
allowing the full 16-bit width of the corresponding fields in the
VTOC8 label to be used. The removed limits basically only held
true for providers labeled using the synthetic geometry provided
by cam_calc_geometry(9) but neither SCSI disks labeled with Solaris
nor sufficiently large ATA disks.
- Given that providers (originally) labeled with Solaris typically
use the native geometry as reported by the target while FreeBSD
typically uses a synthetic one put the message complaining about
mismatching geometries between what the label indicates and what
GEOM thinks the provider has, which we generally can't help,
under bootverbose in order to not unnecessarily scare users.
- For informational purposes add the non-matching values to the
message complaining about them, similar to what r186501 did for
g_part_bsd_read() except also indicating the origin of the
values.
- Make it clear that the messages emitted by this code refer to
the VTOC8 support rather than to another existing scheme or to
VTOC32.
the method for the (indent == NULL) case (i.e. the kern.geom.conftxt
sysctl). The purpose is to extend the conftxt output with scheme-
specific fields which can be used by libdisk. In particular, have
the schemes dump the xs and xt fields, which contain the backward
compatible values for class type and partition type. This allows
libdisk to work with the legacy slicers as well as with gpart and
helps/promotes migration.
to declaring a proper module. The module event handler is part of the
gpart core and will add the scheme to an internal list on module load
and will remove the scheme from the internal list on module unload.
This makes it possible to dynamically load and unload partitioning
schemes.
not have VTOC information about the partitions, it will be created.
This is because the VTOC information is used for the partition type
and FreeBSD's sunlabel(8) does not create nor use VTOC information.
For this purpose, new tags have been added to support FreeBSD's
partition types.
