geom label detaching partway through boot

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:22:12AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> 
> >Ah, version is not important actually. The problem is that both
> >/dev/da0s1a and /dev/label/geom0s1a have the same size and the same
> >metadata. 
> 
> Doesn't glabel store it's metadata on the provider (da0) if used with 
> the "label" verb? If so, why isn't the produced geom (geom0) shorter by 
> one sector? If not, where does it store the metadata? :)

geom0 is one sector shorter than da0, but bsdlabel stuff, which defines
partitions is the same for both, so geom0s1a and da0s1a have the same
size.

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