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. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://yomoli.com
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