RFC: Project geom-events

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Fri Oct 7 20:23:55 UTC 2011


2011/10/7 Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg>:

> Then, "by standard" GPT cannot coexist with GLABEL. Such setup should be
> disallowed, or at least big nasty message that you have just shoot yourself
> in the leg should be output. (period)

GPT cannot coexist with ANY GEOM CLASS which writes metadata to the last sector.

If you think this should be explicitely handled, please file a PR
which requests the modification of gpart so that it detects that a GPT
is being created in anything other than a raw drive, and warns the
user.


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