Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:29:22 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: Chris Hedley <cbh-freebsd-current@groups.chrishedley.com> Subject: Re: GEOM: gpt partitions on a gmirror array possible? Message-ID: <20041130202922.GC1335@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20041130201522.GA92745@ns1.xcllnt.net> References: <20041127193532.X15946@teapot.cbhnet> <20041129133825.GL7232@darkness.comp.waw.pl> <20041129183511.GA84117@ns1.xcllnt.net> <20041130153044.E20313@teapot.cbhnet> <20041130201522.GA92745@ns1.xcllnt.net>
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--E13BgyNx05feLLmH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:15:22PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 03:37:52PM +0000, Chris Hedley wrote: > > > > > >I guess a change like geom_mbr.c:1.57 is in order, or a more to-the- > > >point test for rejecting GPT on MBR or GPT on GPT. > >=20 > > Any suggestions before I start butchering the file in question? >=20 > Removal of the following should do it without causing problems: >=20 > if (gp->rank !=3D 2 && insist =3D=3D 0) > break; >=20 > In fact, this is the fix I'm considering. The strength of GEOM is > that you can create arbitrary layering and nesting and imposing > limitations seems counter productive. There may be an advantage to > allow GPT on MBR or GPT on GPT even if it's disallowed under EFI. > We already allow the use of GPT outside the context of EFI... I think this would be a very good idea. It's quite conceivable that we could end up wanting to put a GPT inside a sunlabel or an Apple partition table. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --E13BgyNx05feLLmH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBrNghXY6L6fI4GtQRAhv2AKCfN0arSBCkKJAIInJzCK3fVjnMcACfc7Gj qO1wC1GViFr9bCzLTYqhZXI= =Uf/+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --E13BgyNx05feLLmH--
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