On May 22, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Craig Boston wrote:
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 :(
GPT is not designed to be a sub-partitioning scheme. It can not be
used within a partition. As such, absolute block addresses are the
same as relative block addresses. As such, no mistake has been made
yet.
FreeBSD actually creates a GPT with relative addresses, which means
that if we allow it to be used to sub-partition partitions, it would
not have the same problem as the BSD label.
FYI,
--
Marcel Moolenaar
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