Hardcoding gmirror provider

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Feb 23 02:24:31 PST 2005


In message <20050223101436.GX9291 at darkness.comp.waw.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wr
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>On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:32:01AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
>+> Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>+> > ...and metadata at the begining of the provider still doesn't fix 'c'
>+> > partition problem and 'a' partition which starts at sector 0, which is
>+> > the default start offset in sysinstall.
>+>=20
>+> The c partition is a problem you have to address anyway (and it is
>+> best addressed by removing the magicness of the c partition
>+> altogether). [...]
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>It is not going to be removed. We're going to wait for MBR to die.

s/MBR/BSDlabel/

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