Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:50:46 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bigger boot block size? Message-ID: <43246066.8070709@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <760.1126453829@phk.freebsd.dk> References: <760.1126453829@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <86y863k70q.fsf@xps.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= > writes: > > >>We also need to fix gstripe, gmirror etc. so they place their metadata >>at the start of the provider instead of at the end. > > > There are perfectly good arguments for metadata at front and metadata > at the end and none of the arguments is definitive. > > In GEOM it is a private matter for the classes in question, and as > long as they handle it properly, I have no issues with any placement > of metadata. > There are actually very good arguments for putting the metadata at the end of the components. Consider that it means that you can boot a gmirror array without system BIOS support. Scott
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