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Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Subject: Re: ZFS: invalid label -- what is expected? (solved)
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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