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From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com>
To: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: diskid documentation
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:45:52AM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > It also tends to sometimes hide the gpt label provider on me (not sure
> > in which cases it does this, but it is annoying)
> 
> This happens when something (e.g. zfs) happens to open the diskid
> provider instead of the gpt label.  For me this ended up being a bit
> more than annoying; my swap was mounted in /etc/fstab via a gpt label
> so I silently lost my swap when I did an upgrade.

Wait-- one type of one label can hide another?

I thought a big point of labels was to remove ambiguity...

==ml

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