From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 3 16:11:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C55EB106564A for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 16:11:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@midsummerdream.org) Received: from p3plsmtpa06-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa06-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [173.201.192.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2BD98FC0C for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 16:11:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12162 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2011 16:04:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (70.131.50.227) by p3plsmtpa06-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (173.201.192.103) with ESMTP; 03 Dec 2011 16:04:45 -0000 Message-ID: <4EDA489B.9060503@midsummerdream.org> Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:04:43 -0600 From: Rob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derrick Ryalls , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4ED98E9F.9010401@midsummerdream.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: AHCI driver and static device names X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lists@midsummerdream.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:11:25 -0000 glabel looks to place a label on the whole disk, but the manpage is unclear (to me) how the partitions are handled. If I use glabel to label a disk "test" and this disk has 4 partitions on it, then how is each partition accessed? testp1...testp4 for gpt? The other option seems to be to use tunefs or a partitioning tool to label each partition, which is even more ugly imo. Rob On 12/2/11 9:27 PM, Derrick Ryalls wrote: > Look for disk labels, I think glabel is the command. Then you use > /dev/label/mylabel etc for the disks. > > Let me know if this isn't enough to find the right man page or spot in > the handbook. I use it in my raid array but am running short on time > right now. > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Rob > wrote: > > I was getting ready to install the latest FreeBSD 9-RCs image, and I > found that 9 now defaults to using the ahci driver for sata disks. > This would be great if it weren't for the fact that the ahci > driver seems to do dynamic device name assignment as opposed to the > static ones used with the older drivers. > > I've looked around on google and while this is mentioned (in old > threads), the "solution" is to use labels or elaborate mapping via > hints which really aren't solutions imo. If I have 15 disks in an > array, I want to be able to label them and know which bay is which > device name. If I have to replace a drive, I have no idea what > dynamic device name it will have when it comes time to partition > (and label, if I were using that). I could probably figure it out > by looking at what disks are used on the system, but that's more > work that it really should be. > > Is there a way to use the ahci driver and get static device names? > > Rob > _________________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/__mailman/listinfo/freebsd-__questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-__unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " > >