Where do label and shsec store their data.

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 19 23:37:53 PDT 2005


On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:19:38AM +0200, Frank J. Beckmann wrote:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> do both glabel and gshsec use the last sector of a device to store their data?

Gshsec yes, glabel - it depends.
Glabel supports file system labels and its own labels (when there is no file
system). The former don't need any additional metadata, the later uses last
sector.

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