On Jun 28, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: >> >> I would be having less problems if the mirroring didn't force the backup >> GPT header in anything but the last sector. [...] > > GPT backup header is placed in the last sector of the mirror device, > just like the user asked. Gmirror doesn't force anything. User decides > to put GPT partitioning on the mirror device instead of raw disk. > Gmirror doesn't even know and doesn't have to know how the user uses > data area on the mirror device. This really is a cop-out paragraph. >> [...] If the metadata was somewhere >> else, then we wouldn't need to kluge various places to deal with the >> ambiguity and visible interoperability problems of the various tools and >> OSes. [...] > > Where is "somewhere else", exactly? I already suggested a few things in this thread. Go read it. I'm bored now, so I'll just wait for UEFI booting to be forced upon those who mirror the whole disk with gmirror. I think that's when we will have a more substantial and meaningful continuation of this thread. -- Marcel Moolenaar marcel_at_xcllnt.netReceived on Thu Jun 28 2012 - 22:42:44 UTC
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