Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 17:53:34 +0400 From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Project geom-events Message-ID: <672948039.20111006175334@serebryakov.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <4E8D9136.6040200@digsys.bg> References: <1927112464.20111004220507@serebryakov.spb.ru> <4E8B7A27.5070908@quip.cz> <344794801.20111005101957@serebryakov.spb.ru> <4E8C1426.60107@quip.cz> <251861322.20111005125825@serebryakov.spb.ru> <4E8C6E85.90005@quip.cz> <CACdU%2Bf8mA1wLUnHVyrJwaf89ahf2oc_904=8mme7kkBLxLSCCQ@mail.gmail.com> <4E8CD662.90202@quip.cz> <j6k252$hpm$1@dough.gmane.org> <4E8D9136.6040200@digsys.bg>
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Hello, Daniel. You wrote 6 =D0=BE=D0=BA=D1=82=D1=8F=D0=B1=D1=80=D1=8F 2011 =D0=B3., 15:29:= 58: > The proper way for this is to have these things store their metadata in > the first/last sector of the provider, not the underlying device. > This means that, if you have GPT within GLABEL, for example -- you will > only see the GPT label if you first see the GLABEL. > I guess the present situation was created out of laziness ;) No. GPT (and MBR) metadata placement is dictated from outside world, where is no GEOM and geom_label. They INTENDED to be used on DISKS. BIOSes should be able to find it :) --=20 // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
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