On 23 Apr 2008, at 21:54, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
On Apr 23, 2008, at 12:09 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 02:54:40 pm Doug Rabson wrote:
On 23 Apr 2008, at 19:48, John Baldwin wrote:
jhb 2008-04-23 18:48:36 UTC
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_7)
sbin/gpt gpt.c
Log:
MFC: Add 'zfs' as an alias for the FreeBSD ZFS UUID.
Does it make sense to have a FreeBSD ZFS UUID? ZFS is a portable
filesystem format - shouldn't we use whatever UUID Solaris uses for
ZFS in GPT?
That's a good question. Maybe pjd@ or marcel@ have opinions on the
matter?
There's no such UUID as far as I know, so I thought it safer
to create a FreeBSD-specific one because we already have
incompatibilities between operating systems for things like
UFS and BSD labels. While ZFS may be portable, I'm not at all
sure that different OSes are feature compatible and for that
it's good to know where the ZFS originates from. Also, we may
create an UUID with the intend that it's a common UUID, but
getting other OSes to use that UUID is far from easy.
As far as I can make out from the Solaris source, it uses:
6a898cc3-1dd2-11b2-99a6-080020736631 V_USR
Unfortunately it seems to use this UUID for lots of other things too.
I think it sets the partition name to "zfs" for partitions that are
part of a ZFS pool.
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