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To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
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In message <eqdfjm$5c3$1@sea.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras writes:
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>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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>> You mean writing to sectors which mounted filesystems belive they
>> have exclusive use of ?
>> 
>> No, GEOM doesn't support or allow that.
>
>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.

And just how does "the last sector" not occupy the same sector as
the last sector of the last mounted partition ?

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