From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 13:06:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 887B21065673 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:06:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB488FC18 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:06:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LUKzK-0007pY-8m for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:06:50 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:06:50 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:06:50 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:06:36 +0100 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <20090203082153.565746e2@zelda.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigD23F25D9928ABDFC25EA257E" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: GEOM_PART: a quick update on logical partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:06:52 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigD23F25D9928ABDFC25EA257E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Marius N=C3=BCnnerich wrote: > I'm not happy with the symlinks either. When someone is manipulating a > partition table she should be able to live with the consequences. I > would rather go for the UUID in UFS header approach if there is enough > room. BTW I implemented GPT UUID glabels a while ago please see: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D128398 I have a patch for UFS "GUID" labels (not exactly GUIDs, but every UFS file system has a reasonably unique ID associated with it) but have encountered what seems a bug in GEOM slicers - two dev entries pointing to the same device don't work well with orphaning/tasting. Have you encountered something similar perhaps? --------------enigD23F25D9928ABDFC25EA257E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJiEFcldnAQVacBcgRAvlTAKCQojEbQtFmgG7blAdpX2YeXSDgfgCfcrUg EckhG08jsowQS+8xYBahIQk= =XTkN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigD23F25D9928ABDFC25EA257E--