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Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: RFC: Project geom-events
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Hello, Daniel.
You wrote 6 =D0=BE=D0=BA=D1=82=D1=8F=D0=B1=D1=80=D1=8F 2011 =D0=B3., 15:29:=
58:


> The proper way for this is to have these things store their metadata in
> the first/last sector of the provider, not the underlying device.

> This means that, if you have GPT within GLABEL, for example -- you will
> only see the GPT label if you first see the GLABEL.

> I guess the present situation was created out of laziness ;)
  No. GPT (and MBR) metadata placement is dictated from outside world,
where is no GEOM and geom_label. They INTENDED to be used on DISKS.
BIOSes should be able to find it :)

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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>