RFC: Project geom-events

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 06.10.11 14:07, Ivan Voras wrote:
>
> Um, you do realize this is a "physical" problem with metadata location
> and cannot be solved in any meaningful way? Geom_label stores its label
> in the last sector of the device, and GPT stores the "secondary" /
> backup table also at the end of the device. The two can NEVER work
> together. The same goes for any other GEOM class which stores metadata
> and GPT.

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 ;)