absolute vs. relative offsets in disklabel

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday 06 August 2006 10:59, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> * Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav (des at des.no) wrote:
> > > Recent `disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly' thread gave me a
> > > thought - why do we have absolute offsets in disklabel?
> > We don't, AFAIK.  Since the transition to GEOM, the offsets are
> > relative to the start of the containing provider.
> It has nothing to do with GEOM, it's ondisk format of disklabel. I've
> confirmed, there are global offsets.

Actually, the GEOM provider goes though some gymnastics to portray the offsets 
as relative to userland, but ondisk they are still stored as absolute to 
preserve compatiblity.
-- 
John Baldwin