MBR zapped when panicking?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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.

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