From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 23:57:41 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 5002E1065670 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 23:57:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivoras@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f17.google.com (mail-fx0-f17.google.com [209.85.220.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40678FC0C for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 23:57:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ivoras@gmail.com) Received: by fxm10 with SMTP id 10so194675fxm.19 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:57:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pVSGhBnMYIQFNbug87HwrFWIaFxW4lXTv0hEUn+ervk=; b=Uc45154BfPrYf/d7TAfmaHGBGSzmDF12ikPI1NMPno93sq36Y/xu4qSyk2NMmzhN+1 McPqMUoj9M0zNLX8Yi62LjutkKCfQG2xiHtHrAA22+Wu1TIWQRwk8QFfpzLve/GxjhDK HkFceMsu1ADvZuaNw30ihGGkDpUi9Hr+TKv7g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=TRQhQTvQoHJezgM3T2mdbJow8QHJlEr3NjetIvDRSBiyNUvGHBw1f8qb/AsPTw+klT Tat4nXnBcqdDmnnSt57XUh4tRkJchKa0LH+p7mUWYX52oFanOzJaLutB84ta+EKrDs/Y Hb2zPGvendDSqN/Oo+pgdYvxLljk8aY/l05wY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: ivoras@gmail.com Received: by 10.181.239.8 with SMTP id q8mr581412bkr.1.1233704161808; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:36:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4988C908.1030002@FreeBSD.org> References: <20090203082153.565746e2@zelda.local> <4988C908.1030002@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 00:36:01 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7f0b0116e2e3a5c0 Message-ID: <9bbcef730902031536h5ec406b3h5e375cfdf9f4abc7@mail.gmail.com> From: Ivan Voras To: Maxim Sobolev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 23:57:41 -0000 2009/2/3 Maxim Sobolev : > Ivan Voras wrote: >> >> 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? > > Why exactly do we need UFS "GUID" labels, when we already have GEOM_LABEL= , > which works just fine with UFS. So people don't need to make up dummy labels for dozens of file systems :) Also, "UFS GUIDs" are always present, even in root file systems created by sysinstall by default. It's a good idea.