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Subject: Re: How to get the partition number of a GPT partition from the
	geom?
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Hi Marcel,

thanks for your reply.

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 20, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Marius N=FCnnerich wrote:
>
>> A new question popped up:
>> Is it possible to test the a geom of class PART is of "subclass" GPT?
>
>
> Not easily from the kernel now, but it's always possible to make
> certain bits of information more readily available for use inside
> the kernel.
>
> It seems to make sense to have GEOMs export label information
> through g_getattr(). This allows the label to come from every
> GEOM that possibly can have labels, without the need to add
> explicit support...

That would certainly be a clean thing to do.
I'll take a look into g_getattr() now, thanks.