Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:01:59 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1104201655550.33877@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4DAF5FBA.8080304@FreeBSD.org> References: <4DAEAE1B.70207@FreeBSD.org> <20110420203754.GM85668@acme.spoerlein.net> <4DAF46F8.9040004@FreeBSD.org> <BCE89DC7-116D-48E1-BD86-DF986062B0CC@samsco.org> <4DAF5FBA.8080304@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Doug Barton wrote: > On 04/20/2011 15:18, Scott Long wrote: >> I agree with what Alexander is saying, but I'd like to take it a step >> further. We should all be using [...] mount-by-label > > +1 > > When I first saw this on linux my gut reaction was "ewwww, different." But > now that I've worked with it a bit, I really like it. Doing this by default > in 9.0 would be a really useful step forward, and would allow greater > innovation down the road. > > Is there a handy tutorial somewhere for making this change in FreeBSD? Or is > it even possible to do in a rational way? Not sure I understand the question. I have a little article called FreeBSD Labeled Filesystems: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/labels.html It uses filesystem labels instead of device labels (except for swap). The differences are the utility used to create the labels and where the labels show up in /dev.
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