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Subject: Re: another gpt vs mbr (sanity) check
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on 08/03/2010 01:31 Marcel Moolenaar said the following:
> 
> The best of all worlds doesn't exist anymore. It was how it
> was designed to be and not how it's used at this time.

So, I guess it is carved in stone and there is no point in trying to discuss it.
I'll keep the patch for myself, then.

P.S. Both Windows 7 and OpenSuSE 11.2 handled the disk in question properly from
my point of view, as an MBR disk, only FreeBSD considered it a GPT one.  I have
no access to MacOS.

-- 
Andriy Gapon