Experiences with Gpart

Marius Nünnerich marius at nuenneri.ch
Sun Oct 19 21:14:07 UTC 2008


On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 19, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Marius Nünnerich wrote:
>
>>> Despite the intent of gpt's being to make such nesting unnecessary, as
>>> a means of defining the structure of gmirrors, which take up the
>>> entire extent of whatever encloses them, the nesting was very helpful.
>>
>> Maybe nesting simply works if you comment the first if in
>> g_part_gpt_probe() in
>> sys/geom/part/g_part_gpt.c ? I don't get why this is restricted, should be
>> my
>> decision to nest or not imo.
>
> Nesting is not allowed as per the GPT specification.

OK. It doesn't make much sense for slices too, but is still allowed.


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