On Jun 27, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Christian Laursen wrote: > On 06/27/12 16:28, John Baldwin wrote: >> On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 8:45:45 am Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: >> >>> When we are in the FreeBSD, our loader can detect that device size >>> is lower than it see and it will work. When primary header is OK, then >>> other OSes should work with this GPT. When it isn't OK, you just can't >>> load other OS :) >> >> Ah, yes. The solution to violating standards is to make sure you never >> use standards-compliant software. That's a great argument. :) >> >> (Although not entirely uncommon. Standards aren't always perfect, but if >> we had a way to not gratuitously violate them it would be nice to avoid >> doing so.) > > To be standards compliant and allow whole-disk based mirroring to work at the > same time wouldn't nested GPT work like this?
GPTs don't nest. > Nothing but FreeBSD would understand the freebsd-geom partition type, so the > inner GPT device should be valid and standards compliant. If it were standards compliant, it would be discoverable by non-FreeBSD. That clearly isn't the case -- hence it's not standards compliant. What for example if someone wanted to share the swap partition between Linux and FreeBSD? -- Marcel Moolenaar mar...@xcllnt.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
