[issue1407] disklabel64 boot problem

[Francois Tigeot]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:28:20PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :But then, maybe I'm too much an HAMMER enthusiast, and we should go the 
> :Linux route and always install a (UFS) /boot.  Then it is also easier to 
> :run more complex setups, like vinum, ccd, etc.
> :
>     There are a few other things I'd like to get done for this release.
>     Sacha has kindly taken on adding a BOOT+HAMMER feature to the
>     installer.  I will take on fixing up fdisk to handle multi-terrabyte
>     disks.  Right now it wraps the 32 bit logical block length instead
>     of assigning the max value (0xFFFFFFFF), and our slice code in the
>     kernel doesn't translate the max-value into the actual disk size
>     which makes disklabel believe that the disk is smaller then it actually

What about gpt ? I had the impression it was meant to replace fdisk for big
storage volumes...

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Francois Tigeot