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From: Bruce Cran <brucec@muon.cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: kern/144962: [geom] panic when accessing GPT disk with a large
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The following reply was made to PR kern/144962; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Cran <brucec@muon.cran.org.uk>
To: Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Subject: Re: kern/144962: [geom] panic when accessing GPT disk with a large
	number of entries
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:46:22 +0000

 I've just recreated the panic - it seems 10,000,000 entries are 
 required to fill virtual memory, not 1,000,000. It takes a very long 
 time for gpart to create them, but on reboot after the disk is detected 
 the system will wait for a couple of minutes before panicing.
 
 -- 
 Bruce Cran