Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:13:24 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Aisaka Taiga <spambox@haruhiism.net> Cc: Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, scottl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: ATA to CAM integration patch Message-ID: <200906282113.42967.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4A4752EF.8030101@haruhiism.net> References: <4A4517BE.9040504@FreeBSD.org> <200906282038.58968.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <4A4752EF.8030101@haruhiism.net>
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--nextPart1489171.a3BTac4nG2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Aisaka Taiga wrote: > > 'create' is the manual method which won't store any metadata - > > 'label' stores it in the last sector of the provider. > > I might be mistaken here as I tried that in May, when I upgraded my > production server to 7.2; I probably tried using the 'label' > subcommand or it wouldn't show up on boot, right? (There was a > mistype in my earlier message; should be "label for provider ad0s1b > is label/swap", not "ad0s1a".) I guess I'll find out tomorrow when I reboot my laptop and see what=20 happens. However, given that it works for Louis you might want to reconsider it. > > The other alternative is to > > use /dev/ufsid/xxx which won't require a newfs as your existing > > FS's have an ID already (presuming you are using GENERIC). > > The problem with ufsids is that unlike a manually set label, you > can't really distinguish between them (as opposed to the default > scheme of sXY where for a boot device you can be almost 80% certain > that ad0s1a is /, f is /usr, etc etc - especially if the default > number of partitions was created). The UFSID is unique for a given newfs (mostly - it is the timestamp I=20 believe). =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1489171.a3BTac4nG2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBKR1du5ZPcIHs/zowRAsYjAJ9qTHNp57xsolsbjHjVLlqqyUgYkACfSq/o aHCIbh5N9IfvYVZavjyoh+M= =7/27 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1489171.a3BTac4nG2--
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