Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 13:32:13 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New g_part class Message-ID: <5A84E040-670F-456F-BA3B-338FC815B0A6@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <eqdfjm$5c3$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <45C98F32.20308@enderzone.com> <99017.1170839681@critter.freebsd.dk> <eqdfjm$5c3$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On Feb 7, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > Ok, the need for sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 arises because the > live > system to be used as master has mounted partitions, and those > partitions > span the whole disk, thus conflict with gmirror which wants to use the > last sector. Since using the last sector for metadata is The Official > Way, how about making such conflicts easy to avoid, like for example > building additional logic in g_part to create partitions one sector > smaller than the container? This cannot generally be done. The GPT partition scheme puts a backup of the header sector in the very last sector on disk, as per the specs. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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