2009/2/3 Maxim Sobolev <sobomax_at_freebsd.org>: > Ivan Voras wrote: >> >> Marius NĂ¼nnerich wrote: >> >>> I'm not happy with the symlinks either. When someone is manipulating a >>> partition table she should be able to live with the consequences. I >>> would rather go for the UUID in UFS header approach if there is enough >>> room. BTW I implemented GPT UUID glabels a while ago please see: >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=128398 >> >> I have a patch for UFS "GUID" labels (not exactly GUIDs, but every UFS >> file system has a reasonably unique ID associated with it) but have >> encountered what seems a bug in GEOM slicers - two dev entries pointing >> to the same device don't work well with orphaning/tasting. Have you >> encountered something similar perhaps? > > Why exactly do we need UFS "GUID" labels, when we already have GEOM_LABEL, > which works just fine with UFS. So people don't need to make up dummy labels for dozens of file systems :) Also, "UFS GUIDs" are always present, even in root file systems created by sysinstall by default. It's a good idea.Received on Tue Feb 03 2009 - 22:57:41 UTC
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