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Date:      Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:31:39 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.
Message-ID:  <20070412113138.GS30772@cicely12.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070412025746.GI10081@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au>
References:  <20070406025700.GB98545@garage.freebsd.pl> <86k5wo55s0.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070407203411.GJ8831@cicely12.cicely.de> <86wt0n3mxv.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070411214911.GA38351@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20070411225124.GM30772@cicely12.cicely.de> <20070412025746.GI10081@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au>

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On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:57:46AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
>     0n Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:51:25AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: 
>     >On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 05:49:11PM -0400, David Schultz wrote:
>     >> On Sat, Apr 07, 2007, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
>     >> > Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> writes:
>     >> > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:43:59PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>     >
>     >Although you want to use ZFS RAID functionality GEOM has still many
>     >goodies avalable, such as md, ggate, partition-parsing, encyption, etc.
>     >There are other cool points, which I've found possible lately.
> 
> partition-parsing ? got any info on that ? I have never heard of it.

Well - you have mutliple ways to partition your drives.
bsdlabel, sunlabel, fdisk, gpt, ...
GEOM has classes which detects and parses them all.
It it resposible to get you /dev/*s1a entries and so on.

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