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Subject: Re: glabel and real disk IDs
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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