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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Daniel Eriksson <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] NetBSD disklabel support for geom_bsd
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

>"Daniel Eriksson" <daniel_k_eriksson@telia.com> writes:
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>>Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>    
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>>>It is still possible to create dangerously dedicated disks, btw, and
>>>it is still possible to put a disklabel (or even a filesystem)
>>>directly on a device.  GEOM means *more* freedom, not less.
>>>      
>>>
>>I've been putting filesystems directly on devices for some time
>>now. Are there any drawbacks to doing this?
>>    
>>
>
>Not unless you want to boot from them.
>
>DES
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>
given that "dangerously dedicated" mode had a dummy bootblock that 
referenced itself
and loaded the next stage boot, that used to work.. I presume it still 
does..?