RFC: Project geom-events
Lev Serebryakov
lev at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 6 13:53:47 UTC 2011
Hello, Daniel.
You wrote 6 октября 2011 г., 15:29:58:
> The proper way for this is to have these things store their metadata in
> the first/last sector of the provider, not the underlying device.
> This means that, if you have GPT within GLABEL, for example -- you will
> only see the GPT label if you first see the GLABEL.
> I guess the present situation was created out of laziness ;)
No. GPT (and MBR) metadata placement is dictated from outside world,
where is no GEOM and geom_label. They INTENDED to be used on DISKS.
BIOSes should be able to find it :)
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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>
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