Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:36:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Statement of architectural direction: disklabel64 / GPT. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206101635150.28471-100000@smtp.gnf.org> In-Reply-To: <98152.1023733690@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > The GPT handles 16k partitions, 64 bit addressing, has decently > checksummed and redundant meta-data and space for per partition > meta-data. So it has a place to stash data suitable for GEOM mirror partitions and other "special" things that need to keep some meta-data about their operations? -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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