The following reply was made to PR kern/162342; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: kern/162342: FreeBSD hides gpt labels after mounting ZFS
        partitions
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 00:20:30 -0500 (EST)

 In article <[email protected]> you write:
 
 > Regardless of whether ZFS is using gptid to access a disk, I don't see why
 > the label should disappear.  It should continue to be available as an alias
 > if the user wants to reference it.
 
 The label device node is just another client to the underlying disk
 partition provider.  As soon as you open the disk for write via one
 path, all of the other paths that reference the same area of the disk
 are automatically destroyed (since you wouldn't be allowed to open
 them anyway).
 
 -GAWollman
 
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