A replacement for GEOM_LABEL's gpt/gptid

[Marius Nünnerich]

Hi Andrey,

just want to say you don't have to wait for me anymore. Just can't
find the time to analyze your aproach.
Thanks for your work on this.

2011/5/3 Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org>:
> on 29/04/2011 19:55 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following:
>> On 27.04.2011 11:37, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
>>>> I wrote a small extension for the GEOM_PART class. It adds an ability
>>>> to GEOM_PART class to create partition labels for schemes which are
>>>> support them.
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> i got several successful reports from users, but now i decided to make
>> this functional available for another consumers.
>> New patch:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/geom_alias.diff
>
> I really like your approach.
> One question - is it somehow possible to make the alias geom even more
> transparent?  I mean completely eliminating g_alias_start() or making it more
> noop-ish.
>
> Thank you!
>
>> What it contains:
>> * gpt/gptid support removed from GEOM_LABEL class;
>> * new GEOM_ALIAS class added. This class has two public functions:
>>       void g_alias_create(struct g_provider *pp, const char *name);
>>       void g_alias_spoil(struct g_provider *pp);
>> * first two consumers of GEOM_ALIAS class are GEOM_PART and GEOM_DISK:
>>
>> GEOM_DISK uses g_alias_create() to create aliases for disks, disk's
>> serial number is used for alias name.
>>
>> GEOM_PART uses g_alias_create() to create aliases for labeled partitions
>> (gpt/gptid, apm and pc98).
>>
>> How it looks like:
>> http://paste.org.ru/?5exeve
>>
>
>
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> Andriy Gapon
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