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Date:      Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:37:28 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Frank J. Beckmann" <frank@barda.agala.net>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Where do label and shsec store their data.
Message-ID:  <20051020063728.GC19624@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <200510200219.40301.frank@barda.agala.net>
References:  <200510200219.40301.frank@barda.agala.net>

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On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:19:38AM +0200, Frank J. Beckmann wrote:
+> Hi,
+>=20
+> do both glabel and gshsec use the last sector of a device to store their=
 data?

Gshsec yes, glabel - it depends.
Glabel supports file system labels and its own labels (when there is no file
system). The former don't need any additional metadata, the later uses last
sector.

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