Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:14:06 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marius_N=FCnnerich?=" <marius@nuenneri.ch> To: "Marcel Moolenaar" <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: Cyrus Rahman <crahman@gmail.com>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experiences with Gpart Message-ID: <b649e5e0810191414i66c9d881x2314e66fec088f97@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7353F23F-F944-47C9-A97D-6DE247F958AE@mac.com> References: <9e77bdb50810011331y7216eac3yf85907f96f5e8370@mail.gmail.com> <b649e5e0810191024s794445fdke8f2aac31a5617c@mail.gmail.com> <7353F23F-F944-47C9-A97D-6DE247F958AE@mac.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> wrote: > > On Oct 19, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Marius N=FCnnerich wrote: > >>> Despite the intent of gpt's being to make such nesting unnecessary, as >>> a means of defining the structure of gmirrors, which take up the >>> entire extent of whatever encloses them, the nesting was very helpful. >> >> Maybe nesting simply works if you comment the first if in >> g_part_gpt_probe() in >> sys/geom/part/g_part_gpt.c ? I don't get why this is restricted, should = be >> my >> decision to nest or not imo. > > Nesting is not allowed as per the GPT specification. OK. It doesn't make much sense for slices too, but is still allowed.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?b649e5e0810191414i66c9d881x2314e66fec088f97>