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Date:      Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:59:54 +0400
From:      Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@mail.ru>
To:        Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: absolute vs. relative offsets in disklabel
Message-ID:  <20060806145954.GC907@hades.panopticon>
In-Reply-To: <864pwtoorp.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <20060731203213.GA75233@hades.panopticon> <864pwtoorp.fsf@xps.des.no>

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* Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav (des@des.no) wrote:
> > Recent `disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly' thread gave me a
> > thought - why do we have absolute offsets in disklabel?
> We don't, AFAIK.  Since the transition to GEOM, the offsets are
> relative to the start of the containing provider.
It has nothing to do with GEOM, it's ondisk format of disklabel. I've
confirmed, there are global offsets.

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 Dmitry                          mailto:amdmi3@mail.ru



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