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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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