GEOM_PART: a quick update on logical partitions

[Maxim Sobolev]

Ivan Voras wrote:
> Marius Nünnerich wrote:
> 
>> I'm not happy with the symlinks either. When someone is manipulating a
>> partition table she should be able to live with the consequences. I
>> would rather go for the UUID in UFS header approach if there is enough
>> room. BTW I implemented GPT UUID glabels a while ago please see:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=128398
> 
> I have a patch for UFS "GUID" labels (not exactly GUIDs, but every UFS
> file system has a reasonably unique ID associated with it) but have
> encountered what seems a bug in GEOM slicers - two dev entries pointing
> to the same device don't work well with orphaning/tasting. Have you
> encountered something similar perhaps?

Why exactly do we need UFS "GUID" labels, when we already have 
GEOM_LABEL, which works just fine with UFS.

-Maxim