Re: GEOM: gpt partitions on a gmirror array possible?

From: Marcel Moolenaar (marcel_at_xcllnt.net)
Date: 11/29/04

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To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>

    On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:38:25PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
    >
    > It is because GEOM_GPT class only allow to create GPT labels on rank#1
    > providers (i.e. disks). I'm not sure why we have this hack, maybe marcel@
    > knows something more (cc'ed).

    It's there, because it was there for the MBR class when I used that
    class as a blueprint for implementing GPT support. Since GPT is not
    allowed within an MBR slice, or within a GPT partition (no nesting),
    not to mention all the non-native partitioning schemes that GEOM
    supports, that test made sure we only tasted GPT partitions on the
    one kind of providers that existed besides slicers: disks.

    I guess a change like geom_mbr.c:1.57 is in order, or a more to-the-
    point test for rejecting GPT on MBR or GPT on GPT.

    FYI, 

    -- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net
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