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From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@mail.ru>
To: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>
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Subject: Re: absolute vs. relative offsets in disklabel
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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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