kern/159091: [geom] GEOM fails to scan nested partitions to create subdevices

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

The following reply was made to PR kern/159091; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher at yandex.ru>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, wayne at staff.msen.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/159091: [geom] GEOM fails to scan nested partitions to create
 subdevices
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:29:58 +0400

 Hi,
 
 GEOM_PART_BSD does not support nested partitions.
 If you want to create many partitions you can create GPT partition
 table. It supports more than 128 partitions. Also you can use "-n"
 option for `gpart create` command. BSD scheme supports maximum 20
 partitions.
 
 -- 
 WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov