on 29/04/2011 19:55 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following: > On 27.04.2011 11:37, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: >>> I wrote a small extension for the GEOM_PART class. It adds an ability >>> to GEOM_PART class to create partition labels for schemes which are >>> support them. > > Hi All, > > i got several successful reports from users, but now i decided to make > this functional available for another consumers. > New patch: > http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/geom_alias.diff
I really like your approach. One question - is it somehow possible to make the alias geom even more transparent? I mean completely eliminating g_alias_start() or making it more noop-ish. Thank you! > What it contains: > * gpt/gptid support removed from GEOM_LABEL class; > * new GEOM_ALIAS class added. This class has two public functions: > void g_alias_create(struct g_provider *pp, const char *name); > void g_alias_spoil(struct g_provider *pp); > * first two consumers of GEOM_ALIAS class are GEOM_PART and GEOM_DISK: > > GEOM_DISK uses g_alias_create() to create aliases for disks, disk's > serial number is used for alias name. > > GEOM_PART uses g_alias_create() to create aliases for labeled partitions > (gpt/gptid, apm and pc98). > > How it looks like: > http://paste.org.ru/?5exeve > -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
