On 28.06.2012 00:14, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> Our loader detects that primary GPT header is damaged. It tries to read >> backup GPT header from the last LBA and it detects that there is >> "GEOM::" signature. It tries to read one previous sector and there is >> *valid* GPT header. > > How do you know it's valid? It's in a location that is not valid > to begin with. Validity is based on rules and you're violating the > the rules without defining exactly what we call valid given the > new rules. This may seem nitpicking, but having went through the > hassle of dealing with the broken way we created the dangerously > dedicated disk, I appreciate the importance of being anal when it > comes to something that lives on non-volatile storage and gets to > be exposed to a world much larger than FreeBSD.
So why do you not prevent to attach GEOM_PART_GPT to any providers that are not the disk drive? This will be the right solution to all our problems. Just don't create invalid GPT. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov _______________________________________________ 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"
