Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:52:51 +0200 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r220983 - head Message-ID: <34A34338-79E0-435E-9BF1-614D10FC9FC7@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <E5C45DAC-6014-42E2-9E1C-BFB7D54EBCB4@bsdimp.com> References: <201104240923.p3O9N8QG025386@svn.freebsd.org> <20110424161933.GA18775@vniz.net> <18B3AE1E-467E-4B23-81B9-AB1EDEFE1F7A@gsoft.com.au> <E5C45DAC-6014-42E2-9E1C-BFB7D54EBCB4@bsdimp.com>
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On 25/04/2011, at 6:55, Warner Losh wrote: >> The best way is to change to use GPT IDs (/dev/gptid/xxx) if you are = on a GPT system) or UFS IDs (/dev/ufsid/xxx) if you can't. >=20 > I've been running with ufs labels for a couple of years now, since the = first rumblings of this hit the streets. They work great no matter what = the underlying partitioning scheme. The one drawback is that if you = have multiple disks with the same labels, then the first one wins. = Normally not a problem, but when you have it, you need to ensure the = right one is selected. I avoid this problem by prefixing a hostname to = the label... This is why I prefer IDs since they are nominally unique (UFS ones, GPTs = damn well better be :) Although I concede it is rather annoying to work out which is which, or = type them out manually.. -- 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
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