[Bug 232463] EBR slice cannot be added partitions to

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232463

--- Comment #3 from Andrey V. Elsukov <ae at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to bourne.identity at hotmail.com from comment #2)
> Hi Andrey,
> 
> Thanks, but that is quite surprising. Why cannot the default kernel have EBR
> compatibility switched on, rather than forcing the user recompile the whole
> kernel for such a small thing ? People do not want to recompile kernels
> unless there is a significant cause.
> 
> As it happens, I am writing a book about FreeBSD/Linux/Cygwin. And whereever
> the book needs EBR work, I have to document it as MBR (gpart create -s MBR).
> This is really not desired for me, or for any of my readers.

This is because without EBR_COMPAT option, EBR partition naming/numbering will
be not compatible with old installations.

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