In message <13041066290.20031021201724_at_andric.com>, Dimitry Andric writes: >Note that all disks in this machine are Dangerously Dedicated (see >attached fdisk-ad[023].txt). I hope that's not totally unsupported, >but what I do observe is that all these DD partitions seem to start at >offset 0 instead of 1, thereby making the MBR actually part of the >partition itself. Could this be a reason for something (GEOM?) >stomping over the MBR when the box panics? Well, GEOM is no more likely to stomp on anything than your average filesystem. Less in fact because GEOM does not originate I/O request, only pass them through. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Tue Oct 21 2003 - 09:28:19 UTC
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