aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Oct 9 07:37:23 UTC 2011


In message <1644928028.20111008143128 at serebryakov.spb.ru>, Lev Serebryakov writ
es:
>Hello, Poul-Henning.
>You wrote 8 =EE=EA=F2=FF=E1=F0=FF 2011 =E3., 14:07:29:
>
>>>  It seems, that GPT will be incompatible with any pure-software
>>> mirror or mirror-like RAID.
>> Unless you do what other implementations have done:  Play nice with
>> GPT and store your metadata in a GPT partition.

>  So, every other GEOM class should have special knowledge about GPT?
>It doesn't look like "topology-agnostic" GEOM way :)

That's mostly because GPT by design does not try to play nice.

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