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Cc: marcel@freebsd.org, pjd@freebsd.org, rsimmons0@gmail.com,
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Subject: Re: bin/157721: gpart(8) unable to create GPT partitions inside of
 providers created by geli
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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?