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From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
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In-Reply-To: <16923.20768.336451.133236@satchel.alerce.com> (George
 Hartzell's message of "Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:34:56 -0800")
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Subject: Re: Hardcoding gmirror provider
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George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com> writes:
> I just skimmed through your comment about hardcoding the provider name
> if ad0 and ad0s1 have the same length.

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.

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