On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:16:22PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > I'd prefer having an UPDATING note with all of the affected areas so that > people can understand what needs to change and adjust their systems > accordingly. As far as geom based hardcoding is concerned: maybe this can > serve as a good lesson of what shouldn't be done and what should be > fixed/have a translation layer added for this item?
Hardcoding provider names in metadata is not mistake. It was added to protect against hacks like the 'c' partition. In the system there might be serval providers representing exactly same data and hardcoding provider name allows to choose the proper one. -- 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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