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Subject: Re: RFC: Project geom-events
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Hello, Lev.
You wrote 8 =EE=EA=F2=FF=E1=F0=FF 2011 =E3., 13:52:21:

>> GPT must have backup copy in last sector by standard ...
> In that case, shouldn't it refuse to install on any provider that is
> not in fact a disk, so as not to create configurations that cannot
> work properly?
  Installation of FreeBSD on software mirror?..

>> MBR doesn;t have any additional metadata. How adding one will help it?
> It would add robustness, for cases like the one that started
> this thread.  If MBR put a GEOM metadata block at the end of
> its provider, it would fix the tasting race when an MBR is
> installed on a glabelled (or gmirrored) drive.
  And how it should work with MBR created by non-FreeBSD tools?

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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>