Re: RFC: Project geom-events

From: Lev Serebryakov <lev_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 17:53:34 +0400
Hello, Daniel.
You wrote 6 октября 2011 г., 15:29:58:


> The proper way for this is to have these things store their metadata in
> the first/last sector of the provider, not the underlying device.

> This means that, if you have GPT within GLABEL, for example -- you will
> only see the GPT label if you first see the GLABEL.

> I guess the present situation was created out of laziness ;)
  No. GPT (and MBR) metadata placement is dictated from outside world,
where is no GEOM and geom_label. They INTENDED to be used on DISKS.
BIOSes should be able to find it :)

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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev_at_FreeBSD.org>
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