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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Marius N=FCnnerich 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?

I haven't encountered strange behaviour there but I will test it again.