partitioning dilemma

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

On 05.05.2011 2:41, Aragon Gouveia wrote:
> Between MBR and GPT, I'm struggling to find the right partitioning scheme to meet my
> requirements. Suggestions on below would be highly appreciated.

Currently we do not have boot manager for GPT similar to boot0 which we use for MBR.
So it may be not so easy to select what you want to boot from GPT. Probably bootme/bootonce
attributes could help, but i did not try them.

> All documentation and mailing list discussion about GPT seems to indicate that creating BSD
> labels inside GPT partitions is a Bad Idea, which would mean putting two GPT partitions into a
> gmirror volume is a bad idea.  Is this still the case?

I do not think that it is bad idea, it should work.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

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