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Date:      Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:36:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Statement of architectural direction: disklabel64 / GPT.
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206101635150.28471-100000@smtp.gnf.org>
In-Reply-To: <98152.1023733690@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> The GPT handles 16k partitions, 64 bit addressing, has decently
> checksummed and redundant meta-data and space for per partition
> meta-data.

So it has a place to stash data suitable for GEOM mirror partitions and 
other "special" things that need to keep some meta-data about their 
operations?

-gordon


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