Label question...why does ufs label vanish on mount?

[Kevin Oberman]

For some reason the /dev/ufs/label entry that geom creates for every UFS
formatted partition is deleted when the device is mounted. This is not
the case for other file systems, though I have not tried them all. It
makes the drive much harder to deal with when you have to keep track of
which physical drive contains the labeled media. It is a particular
issue for hald and the tools which depend on it.

Is there a good reason for this odd behavior of UFS? If there is not a
good reason, could it be changed?
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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