bin/157721: gpart(8) unable to create GPT partitions inside of providers created by geli

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:05:49AM +0000, marcel at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: gpart(8) unable to create GPT partitions inside of providers created by geli
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: marcel
> State-Changed-When: Fri Jun 10 04:04:50 UTC 2011
> State-Changed-Why: 
> GPT does not nest. You cannot create a GPT table within a partition.

Such indirect nesting should work. Doing 'gpart init -s GPT ada0p1' may
not work, but ada0p1.eli is not GPART provider. Maybe it such cases it
should be allowed?

BTW. Why GPT does not nest?

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