[PATCH] Teach geom_label to recognise gpt labels and uuids

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 23 11:41:19 UTC 2008


Marius Nünnerich wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I wrote the following patch for geom_label:
> http://nuenneri.ch/freebsd/geom_label.patch
> 
> What do you think about it? I would love to hear about some tests.

Do you think it's wise to have two separate directories: /dev/gpt and
/dev/gpt_uuid? I don't think anyone will mistake the UUID from the label
if it's in the same directory. Also, if I remember correctly how GPT
works, UUID is always present but the label is optional?

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