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Subject: Re: absolute vs. relative offsets in disklabel
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Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@mail.ru> writes:
> Recent `disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly' thread gave me a
> thought - why do we have absolute offsets in disklabel?

We don't, AFAIK.  Since the transition to GEOM, the offsets are
relative to the start of the containing provider.

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