Re: Bigger boot block size?
From: Scott Long (scottl_at_samsco.org)
Date: 09/11/05
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:50:46 -0600 To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 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.
>
There are actually very good arguments for putting the metadata at the
end of the components. Consider that it means that you can boot a
gmirror array without system BIOS support.
Scott
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