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In message <338510238.20111008140426@serebryakov.spb.ru>, Lev Serebryakov write
s:

>  It seems, that GPT will be incompatible with any pure-software
> mirror or mirror-like RAID.

Unless you do what other implementations have done:  Play nice with
GPT and store your metadata in a GPT partition.

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