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From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
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Subject: Re: kern/159091: [geom] GEOM fails to scan nested partitions to
 create subdevices
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The following reply was made to PR kern/159091; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, wayne@staff.msen.com
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Subject: Re: kern/159091: [geom] GEOM fails to scan nested partitions to create
 subdevices
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:29:58 +0400

 Hi,
 
 GEOM_PART_BSD does not support nested partitions.
 If you want to create many partitions you can create GPT partition
 table. It supports more than 128 partitions. Also you can use "-n"
 option for `gpart create` command. BSD scheme supports maximum 20
 partitions.
 
 -- 
 WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov