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Date:      Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:03:45 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Vadim Goncharov <vadim_nuclight@mail.ru>
To:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changed names of logical disks on recent -CURRENT: part of logical disks not accessible now
Message-ID:  <slrngl4cpg.2i4p.vadim_nuclight@server.filona.x88.info>
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Hi Marcel Moolenaar! 

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:28:14 -0800; Marcel Moolenaar wrote about 'Re: Changed names of logical disks on recent -CURRENT: part of logical disks not accessible now':

> In short: we just need to nail down what we're going to
> fix, if we're going to fix anything, and understand the
> consequences of our choice so that we can document it
> or beter, avoid introducing new bugs in the process..

We want to fix POLA violation, i.e. make all that stuff behave as it always
did before (primary from 1 to 4, logical slices from 5 to any). Nothing more,
because doing something with MBR partitioning nowadays is not worth because
GPT is already available (MBR is limited to 2 Tb, and disks are growing).

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