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Date:      Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:50:29 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
Cc:        Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bigger boot block size? 
Message-ID:  <760.1126453829@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:34:29 %2B0200." <86y863k70q.fsf@xps.des.no> 

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In message <86y863k70q.fsf@xps.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= 
writes:

>We also need to fix gstripe, gmirror etc. so they place their metadata
>at the start of the provider instead of at the end.

There are perfectly good arguments for metadata at front and metadata
at the end and none of the arguments is definitive.

In GEOM it is a private matter for the classes in question, and as
long as they handle it properly, I have no issues with any placement
of metadata.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
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