Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:08:51 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: A replacement for GEOM_LABEL's gpt/gptid Message-ID: <4E4C5813.2060104@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4DBAED76.3030006@FreeBSD.org> References: <4DB54F40.8050608@FreeBSD.org> <4DB7C7B7.9020201@FreeBSD.org> <4DBAED76.3030006@FreeBSD.org>
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On 04/29/11 11:55, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > On 27.04.2011 11:37, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: >>> I wrote a small extension for the GEOM_PART class. It adds an ability >>> to GEOM_PART class to create partition labels for schemes which are >>> support them. > Hi All, > > i got several successful reports from users, but now i decided to make > this functional available for another consumers. > New patch: > http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/geom_alias.diff > > What it contains: > * gpt/gptid support removed from GEOM_LABEL class; > * new GEOM_ALIAS class added. This class has two public functions: > void g_alias_create(struct g_provider *pp, const char *name); > void g_alias_spoil(struct g_provider *pp); > * first two consumers of GEOM_ALIAS class are GEOM_PART and GEOM_DISK: > > GEOM_DISK uses g_alias_create() to create aliases for disks, disk's > serial number is used for alias name. > > GEOM_PART uses g_alias_create() to create aliases for labeled partitions > (gpt/gptid, apm and pc98). > > How it looks like: > http://paste.org.ru/?5exeve > What happened to this? It would be really nice to have in 9.0, or soon after anyway. Anything I can do to help it along? -Nathan
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