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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:21:02 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Accessing disks via their serial numbers. 
Message-ID:  <46189.1151320862@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:52:50 %2B0200." <20060626095250.GB12511@garage.freebsd.pl> 

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In message <20060626095250.GB12511@garage.freebsd.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek writ
es:

>> >Glabel(8) currently supports labeling any GEOM provider, but it steals
>> >the last sector, which is not always acceptable.
>>=20
>> When is it not acceptable ?
>
>When last sector is already occupied.

And what is last sector occupied by ?

I hope we don't play the "drag information out of Pawel one bit at
at time" game here ? :-)

>I hope we don't play "convince phk@" game here.

In fact we do.  I still very much consider myself in charge of
GEOM architecture, so anything that changes the GEOM api need to
pass the "convince phk" threshold.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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