GEOM: gpt partitions on a gmirror array possible?

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:38:25PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> 
> It is because GEOM_GPT class only allow to create GPT labels on rank#1
> providers (i.e. disks). I'm not sure why we have this hack, maybe marcel@
> knows something more (cc'ed).

It's there, because it was there for the MBR class when I used that
class as a blueprint for implementing GPT support. Since GPT is not
allowed within an MBR slice, or within a GPT partition (no nesting),
not to mention all the non-native partitioning schemes that GEOM
supports, that test made sure we only tasted GPT partitions on the
one kind of providers that existed besides slicers: disks.

I guess a change like geom_mbr.c:1.57 is in order, or a more to-the-
point test for rejecting GPT on MBR or GPT on GPT.

FYI,

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