Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:51:33 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: glabel and real disk IDs Message-ID: <4A55F5E5.9080703@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <h34lml$6fv$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <h34lml$6fv$1@ger.gmane.org>
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on 09/07/2009 14:52 Ivan Voras said the following: > Hi, > > I've been working with glabels for a time and just remembered that ATA > (ad) drives do in fact export the drive ID, for example: [snip] > I don't think it would be hard to add a label parser to gather this > information and export it as a label. > > The purpose of this would be to have a unique disk ID without explicitly > setting a label (e.g. as is commonly advised for ZFS and drive swapping). > > Any objections? This is a very good idea in my opinion. -- Andriy Gapon
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