Accessing disks via their serial numbers.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20060626095250.GB12511 at garage.freebsd.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek writ
es:

>> >Glabel(8) currently supports labeling any GEOM provider, but it steals
>> >the last sector, which is not always acceptable.
>>=20
>> When is it not acceptable ?
>
>When last sector is already occupied.

And what is last sector occupied by ?

I hope we don't play the "drag information out of Pawel one bit at
at time" game here ? :-)

>I hope we don't play "convince phk@" game here.

In fact we do.  I still very much consider myself in charge of
GEOM architecture, so anything that changes the GEOM api need to
pass the "convince phk" threshold.

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