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Date:      Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:06:29 +0200
From:      Romain Garbage <romain.garbage@gmail.com>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Lystopad Olexandr <laa@laa.zp.ua>
Subject:   Re: ZFS root on MB Intel S3420GP
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In-Reply-To: <20110417185402.GA55984@icarus.home.lan>
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2011/4/17 Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:45:38PM +0400, Lystopad Olexandr wrote:
>>
>> What about ahci_load=3D"YES" after freebsd install? Is it too late?
>
> I don't recommend enabling ahci.ko after the OS has already been
> installed on an adX disk, simply because I believe the combination of
> GEOM+CAM+ahci may show different geometry details than GEOM+ata would.
>
> Note: I said "I believe", not "I can confirm/validate". =C2=A0I could be
> completely wrong. =C2=A0Rather than find out ( :-) ) I tend to try and do
> things consistently from the very beginning.
>
> So you can try it if you want, be my guest, report back.

I did it on a 8.1-RELEASE install: I installed the system as explained
in the wiki (http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot) and after
some months of use, I added ahci_load=3D"YES" to /boot/loader.conf.
Device names changed from ad{4,8} to ada{0,1} and everything still
worked fine, which kind of surprised me because I didn't do any
labelling to my disks (I remember having done that earlier in 8.0
times, and zfs pool reported devices were unavailable, as was the
pool, at that time).

Regards,
Romain



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