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Date:      Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:18:09 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marius_N=FCnnerich?= <marius@nuenneri.ch>
Cc:        Cyrus Rahman <crahman@gmail.com>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Experiences with Gpart
Message-ID:  <7353F23F-F944-47C9-A97D-6DE247F958AE@mac.com>
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On Oct 19, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Marius N=FCnnerich wrote:

>> Despite the intent of gpt's being to make such nesting unnecessary, =20=

>> as
>> a means of defining the structure of gmirrors, which take up the
>> entire extent of whatever encloses them, the nesting was very =20
>> helpful.
>
> Maybe nesting simply works if you comment the first if in =20
> g_part_gpt_probe() in
> sys/geom/part/g_part_gpt.c ? I don't get why this is restricted, =20
> should be my
> decision to nest or not imo.

Nesting is not allowed as per the GPT specification.

--=20
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt@mac.com






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