Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 19:42:55 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Marius_N=C3=BCnnerich?= <marius@nuenneri.ch> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A replacement for GEOM_LABEL's gpt/gptid Message-ID: <BANLkTimdLPBk8pXv3KzxQTdDHW42GUPYOg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DBFF8AB.6090401@FreeBSD.org> References: <4DB54F40.8050608@FreeBSD.org> <4DB7C7B7.9020201@FreeBSD.org> <4DBAED76.3030006@FreeBSD.org> <4DBFF8AB.6090401@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi Andrey, just want to say you don't have to wait for me anymore. Just can't find the time to analyze your aproach. Thanks for your work on this. 2011/5/3 Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>: > on 29/04/2011 19:55 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following: >> On 27.04.2011 11:37, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: >>>> I wrote a small extension for the GEOM_PART class. It adds an ability >>>> to GEOM_PART class to create partition labels for schemes which are >>>> support them. >> >> Hi All, >> >> i got several successful reports from users, but now i decided to make >> this functional available for another consumers. >> New patch: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/geom_alias.diff > > I really like your approach. > One question - is it somehow possible to make the alias geom even more > transparent? =C2=A0I mean completely eliminating g_alias_start() or makin= g it more > noop-ish. > > Thank you! > >> What it contains: >> * gpt/gptid support removed from GEOM_LABEL class; >> * new GEOM_ALIAS class added. This class has two public functions: >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 void g_alias_create(struct g_provider *pp, const ch= ar *name); >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 void g_alias_spoil(struct g_provider *pp); >> * first two consumers of GEOM_ALIAS class are GEOM_PART and GEOM_DISK: >> >> GEOM_DISK uses g_alias_create() to create aliases for disks, disk's >> serial number is used for alias name. >> >> GEOM_PART uses g_alias_create() to create aliases for labeled partitions >> (gpt/gptid, apm and pc98). >> >> How it looks like: >> http://paste.org.ru/?5exeve >> > > > -- > Andriy Gapon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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