Subject: Re: GPT guids
To: None <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/19/2007 12:18:47
> I don't like recursive partitions either.  If we start with a gpt,
> why would we ever want to find another gpt inside one of the
> partitions?  What makes a second level partition different from yet
> another first level one?

> Let's just keep it simple.

To me, the recursive way _is_ the simple way.  Why should a piece of
disk found through a partition table be any different from a piece of
disk that happens to be an entire hardware spindle?

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