geom_raid tasting providers that can't be raw disks

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 02:02:57AM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote:
> It may depend on metadata format. For example, Intel format depends on
> valid provider serial number. It can't be used on providers without
> serial number -- it won't be able to find place in array for the
> components. Not sure if any non-hardware provider has serial number, so
> this limitation can be effectively the same.

The geom_slice library handles GEOM::ident by querying underlying
provider for its serial number and adding 's%d' suffix, where %d stands
for slice index. So at least partitions have serial numbers if the
underlying provider has it.

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