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Subject: Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 13:32, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrot=
e:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Marius N=FCnnerich wrote:
>> > Maybe the UUID label got their first so it won't have an alias
>> > (although the UUID is an alias for /dev/ad4p2..)
>>
>> Maybe that's been asked already but what version are you using?
>> Does glabel work at all?
>
> 8.0-RC1
>
> glabel works fine, I use it for swap.
>
> Actually that is an interesting point, the swap partitions don't have an
> entry in /dev/gptid, although perhaps that is because glabel has
> grabbed that node.

If I remember correctly nodes vanish when another name for the same
device is opened. Maybe this happens for the other gpt labels too?