Re: BTRFS messes up snapshot LV with origin

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Robert White posted on Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:50:57 -0800 as excerpted:

> To those reading along who don't already know. My explanation below is
> factually inadequate or wrong in various places...
> 
> The "type codes" as presented in the various EFI/GUID disk partitioning
> tools as 0700, 8200, 8300, EF02, and so on are never written to disk as
> such. They are short-hand values (chosen to be deliberately similar to
> the MS-DOS partitioning type codes of 07, 82, 83, etc) to select
> standardized GUIDs for the partition type field.

> I could have, and should have, been _way_ more clear, and/or less wrong.
> 8-)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_type_GUIDs

Thanks.

While I guess we all end up eat humble pie occasionally, you handled it 
with more rather more grace that I often do, and by taking such a hard 
line myself I didn't make it as easy as I might have.


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