Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:41:19 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: Tigger <tigger@lvlworld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to confirm hard drive ufsid before upgrade? Message-ID: <d36406631001040141q60072371j7306adee0eb4b33a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100104035136.GA64004@edward.lilypie.com> References: <20100104035136.GA64004@edward.lilypie.com>
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2010/1/4 Tigger <tigger@lvlworld.com> > Hello. I recently upgraded 7 remote servers from FreeBSD 7.2 to 8.0. > During the process, 3 servers had hard drive ufsid issues. Basically > during the reboot between 7.2 to 8.0, the drive ids 'changed'. > > I'm using ufsids in fstab. > > All servers have two SCSI drives, but have all been set-up by different > people that have come from a Linux background. I can only assume they > have used different commands and methods to format the drives. > > I'm assuming this issue is related to GEOM_ changes, however it is not > very clear how to prevent this from happening (I'm sure I'm missing > something). > > I have one more machine to go which is a lot more critical than the > others and do not wish to have this one down for as long as the others > where. It took about 6 hours to get the tech guys at the other end to > get 2 of the boxes back up, the other one was easy to get up, but all > data was 'lost' on one drive and had to be restored from a back-up. > > -Tig > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > One reason why i use the human readable glabels
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