Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:54:17 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/gpt gpt.c Message-ID: <D88F8D5D-982D-417F-A3CB-8EE0B3A1F3EB@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200804231509.31424.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200804231848.m3NImajV044275@repoman.freebsd.org> <24ADF1BE-47FF-43DD-A189-10D876FBE515@rabson.org> <200804231509.31424.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Apr 23, 2008, at 12:09 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2008 02:54:40 pm Doug Rabson wrote: >> >> On 23 Apr 2008, at 19:48, John Baldwin wrote: >> >>> jhb 2008-04-23 18:48:36 UTC >>> >>> FreeBSD src repository >>> >>> Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_7) >>> sbin/gpt gpt.c >>> Log: >>> MFC: Add 'zfs' as an alias for the FreeBSD ZFS UUID. >> >> Does it make sense to have a FreeBSD ZFS UUID? ZFS is a portable >> filesystem format - shouldn't we use whatever UUID Solaris uses for >> ZFS in GPT? > > That's a good question. Maybe pjd@ or marcel@ have opinions on the > matter? There's no such UUID as far as I know, so I thought it safer to create a FreeBSD-specific one because we already have incompatibilities between operating systems for things like UFS and BSD labels. While ZFS may be portable, I'm not at all sure that different OSes are feature compatible and for that it's good to know where the ZFS originates from. Also, we may create an UUID with the intend that it's a common UUID, but getting other OSes to use that UUID is far from easy. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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