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On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:47:28AM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
+> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:29:38PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
+> +> George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> writes:
+> +> > I just skimmed through your comment about hardcoding the provider n=
ame
+> +> > if ad0 and ad0s1 have the same length.
+> +>=20
+> +> This wouldn't be a problem if gmirror, gstripe etc. placed metadata at
+> +> the start of the provider, like God intended, instead of at the end.
+>=20
+> You won't be able to boot from the mirror then.

=2E..and metadata at the begining of the provider still doesn't fix 'c'
partition problem and 'a' partition which starts at sector 0, which is
the default start offset in sysinstall.

--=20
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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