Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 15:01:22 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Chris Stankevitz <chris@stankevitz.com> Cc: Matt Churchyard <matt.churchyard@userve.net>, FreeBSD FS <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Name/label/id metadata: how do I make it go away Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1509221500580.14674@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <5601B2AF.7040306@stankevitz.com> References: <56004C68.4020904@stankevitz.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1509212126470.4544@wonkity.com> <5600F0DF.8000805@stankevitz.com> <e1abb521ab324532b3445d26984f5638@SERVER.ad.usd-group.com> <5601A82A.7040304@stankevitz.com> <5601B2AF.7040306@stankevitz.com>
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On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > On 9/22/15 12:12 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: >> I want to read the man page or source for whatever assigns diskid for >> glabel to subsequently advertise. That process, for some reason, only >> assigns diskids for 10 of my 22 drives. All drives are the same model >> number, although the drives have different histories. (some drives >> lived in FreeNAS in a former life) > > > According to 'geom disk list', each of my 22 drives has an "ident", but only > some of them have "labels". > > "ident" is turned into a "label" via a process called "tasting": > sys/geom/label/g_label_disk_ident.c > sys/geom/label/g_label.c > > Although it is not yet clear to me why apparently only some of my disks are > "tasted". Labels on devices that are mounted are "withered" and disappear.
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