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To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r264378 - head/sys/geom/part
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From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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In message <da34a750-c6b6-d313-88e6-68a8670c71bb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwi=
n writes:
>On 4/12/14 1:28 PM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

>Also, while we may want to create sane layouts by default, we
>should probably always provide a way to create less-sane layouts that are
>still conformant to the spec.  I do wonder if this kind of default
>preference shouldn't belong in the userspace gpart tool rather than the
>kernel and the kernel should create any compliant layout as requested by
>userland instead.

Seconded.

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