Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:42:28 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk>, freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>, Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org>, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: [CFC/CFT] large changes in the loader(8) code Message-ID: <03CF2422-2A8F-4055-B5CF-F6F110D146F4@xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20120628230725.GB1438@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <201206270807.23347.jhb@freebsd.org> <4FEB0079.7050008@yandex.ru> <201206271028.54477.jhb@freebsd.org> <4FEB5A3C.5050900@borderworlds.dk> <1900D4C1-E5E5-446F-ABBF-976A2DFEB36B@xcllnt.net> <4FEC22A0.9000109@freebsd.org> <4FEC2D86.2040505@freebsd.org> <8D85513D-CDFC-4D62-AA5A-F82F46E28CE5@xcllnt.net> <20120628214902.00004e34@unknown> <146B8DC1-4B66-4E78-BBB3-3954DC305424@xcllnt.net> <20120628230725.GB1438@garage.freebsd.pl>
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On Jun 28, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: >> >> I would be having less problems if the mirroring didn't force the backup >> GPT header in anything but the last sector. [...] > > GPT backup header is placed in the last sector of the mirror device, > just like the user asked. Gmirror doesn't force anything. User decides > to put GPT partitioning on the mirror device instead of raw disk. > Gmirror doesn't even know and doesn't have to know how the user uses > data area on the mirror device. This really is a cop-out paragraph. >> [...] If the metadata was somewhere >> else, then we wouldn't need to kluge various places to deal with the >> ambiguity and visible interoperability problems of the various tools and >> OSes. [...] > > Where is "somewhere else", exactly? I already suggested a few things in this thread. Go read it. I'm bored now, so I'll just wait for UEFI booting to be forced upon those who mirror the whole disk with gmirror. I think that's when we will have a more substantial and meaningful continuation of this thread. -- Marcel Moolenaar marcel@xcllnt.net
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