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On Oct 19, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Marius N=FCnnerich wrote:

>> Despite the intent of gpt's being to make such nesting unnecessary, =20=

>> as
>> a means of defining the structure of gmirrors, which take up the
>> entire extent of whatever encloses them, the nesting was very =20
>> helpful.
>
> Maybe nesting simply works if you comment the first if in =20
> g_part_gpt_probe() in
> sys/geom/part/g_part_gpt.c ? I don't get why this is restricted, =20
> should be my
> decision to nest or not imo.

Nesting is not allowed as per the GPT specification.

--=20
Marcel Moolenaar
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