On Monday 07 August 2006 17:05, Roman Kurakin wrote: > 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?
No, this is specific to the BSD label class, not something GEOM does in general. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
