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Brian Behlendorf 5b4136bd49 Create unique partition labels
When partitioning a device a name may be specified for each partition.
Internally zfs doesn't use this partition name for anything so it
has always just been set to "zfs".

However this isn't optimal because udev will create symlinks using
this name in /dev/disk/by-partlabel/.  If the name isn't unique
then all the links cannot be created.

Therefore a random 64-bit value has been added to the partition
label, i.e "zfs-1234567890abcdef".  Additional information could
be encoded here but since partitions may be reused that might
result in confusion and it was decided against.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>
Closes #4517
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cmd Create unique partition labels 2016-04-25 11:13:09 -07:00
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contrib fix booting via dracut generated initramfs 2016-04-25 08:51:38 -07:00
etc Add support for alpine linux 2016-03-08 13:19:53 -08:00
include Add pn_alloc()/pn_free() functions 2016-04-21 09:49:25 -07:00
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man Add support for devid and phys_path keys in vdev disk labels 2016-03-31 13:45:53 -07:00
module Linux 4.5 compat: Use xattr_handler->name for acl 2016-04-25 08:42:08 -07:00
rpm Add the ZFS Test Suite 2016-03-16 13:46:16 -07:00
scripts Make zfs test easier to run in local install 2016-04-12 10:50:01 -07:00
tests Fix ZPL miswrite of default POSIX ACL 2016-04-18 11:26:55 -07:00
udev Support parallel build trees (VPATH builds) 2015-07-17 13:42:51 -07:00
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DISCLAIMER Fix minor typos and update marketing copy. 2013-03-21 12:51:06 -07:00
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Makefile.am Add the ZFS Test Suite 2016-03-16 13:46:16 -07:00
OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE Add CDDL license file 2008-12-01 14:49:34 -08:00
README.markdown Fix minor typos and update marketing copy. 2013-03-21 12:51:06 -07:00
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zfs-script-config.sh.in Add zloop.sh test script 2016-03-23 16:12:25 -07:00
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README.markdown

Native ZFS for Linux!

ZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the Illumos community.

ZFS on Linux, which is also known as ZoL, is currently feature complete. It includes fully functional and stable SPA, DMU, ZVOL, and ZPL layers.

Full documentation for installing ZoL on your favorite Linux distribution can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org