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Subject: Re: please review: patch to retain device name for dumpdev.
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In message <50921B44.20400@ixsystems.com>, Alfred Perlstein writes:

>Poul-Henning, what do you think?  Is there a nicer way?  Perhaps a way 
>to include the "/dev/$device"

I think there are private implemenations where dumpdev is a network thing,
so too much magic string editing is probably not a good idea.

Given that /dev is really just a view into GEOMs namespace, one could
argue for "GEOM:ada0p3" that that may be going overboard in sematic
correctness.

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