Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:15:34 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Unique ID for UFS? Message-ID: <200811201215.42008.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi, I am wondering if there is a unique ID generated for each UFS already? If not would it be possible to add one somehow? There is glabel, but I think having a UUID embedded in the FS would be very handy for automation andwould prevent accidents that glabel can cause. So, there could be a gfsid module that reads IDs from the FS (NTFS, ext2/3, UFS) and creates device nodes to allow access. Linux has something like this (or rather ext2/xfs do) and NTFS appears to have a unique ID (or at least Linux thinks so :) Thanks. PS please CC me as I'm not on the list. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBJJMFF5ZPcIHs/zowRAh/dAJ0RNJQQ5JQZcmO7LW9u37QxVk83GACgl1mp SWaYB0iUjrLlqmb8/Iz1qLY= =EcTT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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