Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 11:36:51 -0400 From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com> To: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> Cc: geom@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: diskid documentation Message-ID: <20140602153651.GB4116@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <CAFMmRNyL=y14h6Ov0CDgXovt0zN9VuK93vYQL80Syab2CkkoPQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20140601134147.GA99583@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <538C7B71.20109@freebsd.org> <CAFMmRNyL=y14h6Ov0CDgXovt0zN9VuK93vYQL80Syab2CkkoPQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:45:52AM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> wrote: > > It also tends to sometimes hide the gpt label provider on me (not sure > > in which cases it does this, but it is annoying) > > This happens when something (e.g. zfs) happens to open the diskid > provider instead of the gpt label. For me this ended up being a bit > more than annoying; my swap was mounted in /etc/fstab via a gpt label > so I silently lost my swap when I did an upgrade. Wait-- one type of one label can hide another? I thought a big point of labels was to remove ambiguity... ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas - mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com, Twitter @mwlauthor http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/, http://blather.MichaelWLucas.com/
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