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Date:      Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:50:44 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r215570 - head/sbin/geom/class/part
Message-ID:  <20101121185044.GA14585@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <201011201603.oAKG3rED017856@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201011201603.oAKG3rED017856@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 04:03:53PM +0000, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> Author: ae
> Date: Sat Nov 20 16:03:53 2010
> New Revision: 215570
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/215570
>=20
> Log:
>   Add to gpart(8) an ability to backup partition table and
>   restore it from given backup.
[...]
> +	{ "backup", 0, gpart_backup, {
> +		{ 'l', "backup_labels", NULL, G_TYPE_BOOL},
> +		G_OPT_SENTINEL },
> +	    "[-l] geom"
> +	},

My opinion was that it would be more handy to always backup labels, but
simply not always restore them. I'd much more prefer an option to
restore than to backup. Backup should contains everything and one should
be able to filter what to restore at restore time.

What do you think?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
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