John Baldwin:
On Sunday 06 August 2006 10:59, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
* Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Recent `disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly' thread gave me a
thought - why do we have absolute offsets in disklabel?
We don't, AFAIK. Since the transition to GEOM, the offsets are
relative to the start of the containing provider.
It has nothing to do with GEOM, it's ondisk format of disklabel. I've
confirmed, there are global offsets.
Actually, the GEOM provider goes though some gymnastics to portray the offsets
as relative to userland, but ondisk they are still stored as absolute to
preserve compatiblity.
You mean that "read mbroffset" to geom could return a relative value?
rik
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