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Date:      Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:35:26 -0700
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        marcel@xcllnt.net
Cc:        marcel@freebsd.org, pjd@freebsd.org, rsimmons0@gmail.com, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/157721: gpart(8) unable to create GPT partitions inside of providers created by geli
Message-ID:  <4df263ee.4HihAI5TrXh5Jigk%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
In-Reply-To: <B1A0749E-0F44-4556-A8EA-15FDF7BF9B54@xcllnt.net>
References:  <201106100405.p5A45n4e050124@freefall.freebsd.org> <20110610054413.GD2433@garage.freebsd.pl> <B1A0749E-0F44-4556-A8EA-15FDF7BF9B54@xcllnt.net>

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Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> wrote:

> I don't think you want to allow gpart<-geom<-part when you
> don't allow gpart<-gpart. The addition of a random geom, in
> between gpart does not change the fact that you're nesting.

What happened to the premise that a geom is a virtual disk, so
you can do to a geom anything that you can do to a real disk?



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