bin/180861: gpart backup/restore doesn't restore labels

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

The following reply was made to PR bin/180861; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher at yandex.ru>
To: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/180861: gpart backup/restore doesn't restore labels
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 02:57:30 +0400

 On 26.07.2013 23:18, Garrett Cooper wrote:
 > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher at yandex.ru> wrote:
 >> On 26.07.2013 06:21, Garrett Cooper wrote:
 >>>> Description:
 >>> I'm rebuilding a GPT table from scratch which was previously mirrored, attempting using...
 >>>
 >>> gpart backup ada0 > /tmp/bk
 >>> gpart restore ada1 < /tmp/bk
 >>>
 >>> And noticed that it didn't restore the labels for the device when I ran `gpart list ada1`.
 >>
 >> You forgot to specify -l flag when restoring. But anyway it can't
 >> restore scheme specific labels, like gptids.
 > 
 > Ack, ok. From a usability perspective though I would hope that -l
 > would default to on, not off. It caught me by surprise more than
 > anything else when the labels weren't present.
 
 It isn't on by default, because GEOM_LABELS doesn't like when different
 providers have the same labels.
 
 -- 
 WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov