Bigger boot block size?

[Scott Long]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <86y863k70q.fsf at xps.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= 
> writes:
> 
> 
>>We also need to fix gstripe, gmirror etc. so they place their metadata
>>at the start of the provider instead of at the end.
> 
> 
> There are perfectly good arguments for metadata at front and metadata
> at the end and none of the arguments is definitive.
> 
> In GEOM it is a private matter for the classes in question, and as
> long as they handle it properly, I have no issues with any placement
> of metadata.
> 

There are actually very good arguments for putting the metadata at the 
end of the components.  Consider that it means that you can boot a
gmirror array without system BIOS support.

Scott