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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2007 08:42:25 -0500
From:      Craig Boston <craig@tobuj.gank.org>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GPT boot loader?
Message-ID:  <20070522134224.GA15806@nowhere>
In-Reply-To: <f2u7pf$7as$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <f2u7pf$7as$1@sea.gmane.org>

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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:57:34AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> and that the fields in the GPT are supposed to be disk-absolute (which
> is not a problem on FreeBSD but may be on other systems).

Grrr, this is one design "feature" of BSD disklabels that I was hoping
might finally go away.  But it seems the GPT designers made the same
mistake :(

It's quite annoying to not be able to simply dd a partition without
having to fix up the offsets.  The GEOM container-like metaphor is very
nice but it sucks that the on-disk formats don't match.

Craig



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