Bigger boot block size?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <86y863k70q.fsf at xps.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= 
writes:

>We also need to fix gstripe, gmirror etc. so they place their metadata
>at the start of the provider instead of at the end.

There are perfectly good arguments for metadata at front and metadata
at the end and none of the arguments is definitive.

In GEOM it is a private matter for the classes in question, and as
long as they handle it properly, I have no issues with any placement
of metadata.

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