From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 16:55:05 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AD5A949C for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 16:55:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from d.mail.sonic.net (d.mail.sonic.net [64.142.111.50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98AD42C00 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 16:55:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aurora.physics.berkeley.edu (aurora.Physics.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.117.67]) (authenticated bits=0) by d.mail.sonic.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s52GsvZX013042 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:54:57 -0700 Message-ID: <538CAC61.3000206@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 09:54:57 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskid documentation References: <538C9D45.6090109@pix.net> In-Reply-To: <538C9D45.6090109@pix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sonic-ID: C;JmmnoHbq4xGZKsUoeQW9yA== M;3qbUoHbq4xGZKsUoeQW9yA== X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:55:05 -0000 On 06/02/14 08:50, Kurt Lidl wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Allan Jude >> 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. > > I have seen this too, starting from a fresh install. > > The install process for stable/10 writes a /dev/gpt style label > into /etc/fstab for the swap space, and that never gets used, > because the /dev/diskid/xxxx stuff appears to take precedence. The installer doesn't actually do this. It would be kind of nice if it did, but the label code is fantastically unreliable (for the reason you mention as well as others). So, while it does set labels on the disk, it does not use them. -Nathan > I put the following into /boot/loader.conf to make the system more > sane: > > kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable=0 > > -Kurt > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >