Accessing disks via their serial numbers.

[Dmitry Pryanishnikov]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>  I'm repeating my recent post to -current, just for the record... Actually,
>> there IS the way to tell whether the last sector is in use on UFS, and
>> reserve it from futher use by FS. It's badsect(8). Just declare the last
>> sector as bad, [...]
>
> The problem with this approach is that if the user does a newfs and restore,
> the information is not preserved.

  The last sector must be re-marked as BAD after newfs and before restore, just
like actual BAD sector. I don't say that keeping the last sector out of use
is simple, but it's definitely possible (again, with UFS).

Sincerely, Dmitry
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