In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ju lian Elischer writes: > >I think that one of the things we need to do is declare a new flag in >disklabel that declares that the disklabel has been converted to use >relative offsets. if the flag is not set then absolute offsets are >expected.. That would give a way for us to move forward while still >allowing partitions to co-exist with 4.x systems. >in -current, geom just has to 'work with it' if the bit is not set. >New systems would automatically set the bit.
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