GEOM_PART: a quick update on logical partitions

[Ivan Voras]

Marius Nünnerich 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=128398

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?

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