From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 7 13:20:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98229106566B for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 13:20:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FFD78FC14 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 13:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so861540fxm.13 for ; Fri, 07 May 2010 06:20:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=fe7h5Lau2zTahovmSMi9uaHo/ppfSSsHbyImmmBzHGA=; b=IUUnh6PXxTLfnxFvy4LFt9QUlcZO2cQow1r6U9AADejuG0uTEraKh2XWjjXMrVODvl 3D1jduxsXsqo2uk6YBVp/dPoh9OXsLV+6vjen0TlquuKB1GgHgg1kLwjLz7vrs9JWbE6 l/sR5Rlx10wqej7L41kRHjxXo0vsO7AYJH30E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=i3rmyAMyE10cnWIU9JNHmELAsS/vvgXgiwPO3/zIcskHWwSWaQ9cNOjscHYHiwy65r U8wyTi+FFrXyM5182i/7KV653klQz3eX6KtgzwSM3bn8bMDDm1iXviI+LQ0wiCO/vit7 2+KuNW97tyXB1Z9FFgjGZDBmyOVabWt+47aRY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.193.72 with SMTP id h8mr2886hbi.121.1273238424960; Fri, 07 May 2010 06:20:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.239.165.129 with HTTP; Fri, 7 May 2010 06:20:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100505195544.be380d17.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20100505195544.be380d17.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 14:20:24 +0100 Message-ID: From: krad To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: dangerously dedicated disks and 8-stable status X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 13:20:32 -0000 On 5 May 2010 18:55, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 5 May 2010 17:17:09 +0100, krad wrote: > > I updated a production box at work last night from freebsd 6.2 to > 8-stable, > > via 7-stable. The upgrade went ok just a minor glitch in jumping from 7 > to > > 8. Basically all the device names changed from mfid0s1[a-g] to > mfid0[a-g]. I > > presume this is because the initial layout was in dangerously dedicated > > mode. > > That's strange. "Dangerously" dedicated partitioning omits the > slicing part, so if you had mfid0s1[a-g] in 6 and 7, there was > a slice. Maybe the mfi driver is different in 8 in terms of > representing the disks? > > > > > Two issues here why did the naming scheme seem to indicate a more > > normal MBR disk layout in bsd 6 and 7. > > Very strange - if you can check booting from a live system CD > or DVD with FreeBSD 6 and 7, and the disks are mfid0s1[a-g], > and if you boot into FreeBSD 8, the disks are mfid0[a-g], that's > really strange... > > > > > Second what is the current status of > > dangerously dedicated in 8-stable as i thought support was being dropped. > > The support has been removed from sysinstall. You can't create > dedicated partitions (without slice) with sysinstall, but you > can create them manually (e. g. using bsdlabel and newfs). So > support isn't dropped at all - dedicated disks just is a new > special secret feature. :-) > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > FYI happened on 2nd box as well but I least it didnt catch me out this time 8). It seems that pre freebsd-8 it is permissible to use format s1[a-h] , however in freebsd-8+ to you are forced to use the format [a-h]. # ls -ltr backup-2010-05-0[57]*/dev/mfid* crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 90 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1g crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 89 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1f crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 88 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1e crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 87 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1d crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 84 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1a crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 86 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1c crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 85 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1b crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 76 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0s1 crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 75 Jan 12 2008 backup-2010-05-05_01:59--2010-05-05_02:29/dev/mfid0 crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 87 May 7 04:38 backup-2010-05-07_13:57--2010-05-07_14:10/dev/mfid0b crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 85 May 7 04:38 backup-2010-05-07_13:57--2010-05-07_14:10/dev/mfid0 crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 91 May 7 05:38 backup-2010-05-07_13:57--2010-05-07_14:10/dev/mfid0g crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 90 May 7 05:38 backup-2010-05-07_13:57--2010-05-07_14:10/dev/mfid0f crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 89 May 7 05:38 backup-2010-05-07_13:57--2010-05-07_14:10/dev/mfid0e crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 88 May 7 05:38 backup-2010-05-07_13:57--2010-05-07_14:10/dev/mfid0d crw-r----- 1 root uucp 0, 86 May 7 05:38 backup-2010-05-07_13:57--2010-05-07_14:10/dev/mfid0a