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Date:      Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:09:52 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Subject:   Re: ZFS: invalid label -- what is expected? (solved)
Message-ID:  <86d4rbxznz.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20080205124626.GB95316@garage.freebsd.pl> (Pawel Jakub Dawidek's message of "Tue\, 5 Feb 2008 13\:46\:26 %2B0100")
References:  <20080204092150.vprsphymqoog8cw4@webmail.leidinger.net> <20080204194936.thzddva9a8s4cwsg@webmail.leidinger.net> <86lk5zy5a4.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080205124626.GB95316@garage.freebsd.pl>

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > I've been toying with the idea of writing a gnop-like geom that allows a
> > disk to be referenced by its serial number if the underlying driver is
> > able to supply it.  That would bypass glabel's disk-shrinking issue when
> > working on whole disks.
> Been there, done that. You can probably find discussion about this in
> the archives. The consensus (well, not mine) was that it is not good
> idea.

Those who think it's a bad idea are free to not use it, while The Rest
Of Us [tm] reap its benefits :)

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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