Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:23:39 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marius_N=FCnnerich?= <marius@nuenneri.ch> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM_PART: a quick update on logical partitions Message-ID: <b649e5e0902040623g2ff69efevda99db6818db345c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <gm9fh1$4el$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <FCA8C5E4-BC41-4711-9EBC-CD692144F6B8@mac.com> <20090203082153.565746e2@zelda.local> <b649e5e0902030357k7508b4e7kc69c31a354b3e077@mail.gmail.com> <gm9fh1$4el$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: > Marius N=FCnnerich wrote: > >> I'm not happy with the symlinks either. When someone is manipulating a >> partition table she should be able to live with the consequences. I >> would rather go for the UUID in UFS header approach if there is enough >> room. BTW I implemented GPT UUID glabels a while ago please see: >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D128398 > > I have a patch for UFS "GUID" labels (not exactly GUIDs, but every UFS > file system has a reasonably unique ID associated with it) but have > encountered what seems a bug in GEOM slicers - two dev entries pointing > to the same device don't work well with orphaning/tasting. Have you > encountered something similar perhaps? I haven't encountered strange behaviour there but I will test it again.
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