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To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
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Subject: Re: New option for newfs(3) to make life with GEOM easier 
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In message <20070901074803.GM85633@comp.chem.msu.su>, Yar Tikhiy writes:
>Hi all,
>
>With some geom(4) modules saving their metadata in the last sectors
>of block devices such as disks and partitions, 

1.  If those geom modules do not reduce their providers to prevent
this metadata from being overwritten, they are buggy.

2.  Why not simply allow the -s argument to newfs to be negative so
    "-s -200" means "reserve 200 sectors" ?

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