Hello, Miroslav. You wrote 6 октября 2011 г., 16:59:19: > I am not a GEOM expert, but isn't it wrong concept, that glabel writes > its metadata and publish original device size? If some GEOM write > metadata at last sector (or first), then it should shrink the published > size (or offset). Or is the problem at geom_part, that it is writing > metadata past the advertised end of the device? Good point. > e.g. If I have disk device with size of 100 sectors and glabel metadata > is stored at the last sector, then glabel should shrink the advertised > size to 99 sectors - then GPT secondary table will be at sector 99 > instead of 100. > The current state is simply wrong, because user can do something what > cannot work and is not documented anywhere. It is Ok in UNIX way, in general. You should be able to shoot your leg, it is good :) But if geom_label doesn't reduce its provider to count its own metadata, it looks like a bug! -- // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev_at_FreeBSD.org>Received on Thu Oct 06 2011 - 11:56:23 UTC
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