Accessing disks via their serial numbers.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20060626154144.D47547 at atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>, Dmitry Pryanishniko
v writes:

>  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.


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