From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 14:43:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D5F106569A for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:43:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emss@free.fr) Received: from smtp-msa-out01.orange.fr (smtp-msa-out01.orange.fr [193.252.23.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10CA08FC22 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:43:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emss@free.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf2352.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id D90727000098; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:42:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com (AAnnecy-103-1-10-48.w217-128.abo.wanadoo.fr [217.128.200.48]) by mwinf2352.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 9ED5070000A0; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:42:59 +0200 (CEST) X-ME-UUID: 20081016144259650.9ED5070000A0@mwinf2352.orange.fr X-ME-User-Auth: e-masson0330 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2170E170BB; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:42:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at interne.kisoft-services.com Received: from srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Dtg-7rzJmevp; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:42:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: by srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E4E6B17100; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:42:49 +0200 (CEST) To: "Svein Skogen (List Mail Account)" From: Eric Masson In-Reply-To: <48F73B8C.8090402@d80.iso100.no> (Svein Skogen's message of "Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:03:08 +0200") References: <48F72A5D.7000708@d80.iso100.no> <863aiw91th.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com> <48F73B8C.8090402@d80.iso100.no> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p5 i386 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:42:49 +0200 Message-ID: <86hc7cr47q.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.5-b28 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Mailing List FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD RELENG_7 scsi and usb, usb disks take precedence X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:43:01 -0000 "Svein Skogen (List Mail Account)" writes: Hi, > With all due respect, if sysinstall isn't able to write those labels, > this is hardly the solution to the problem... ;) Sysinstall, even if it has proven to be useful, is outdated in many respects, it doesn't cope really well with GEOM or ZFS for example. Using GEOM labels ensure that fstab will always be consistent, so *this is* a solution. Now, you can try to patch the kernel to make it probe devices in a predefined & sorted order, but I guess it will be much more difficult ;) -- Car en normandie nous aimons beaucoup le jeu du saute-moutons. Et j'interdis ici les parisiens centralistes et snobinards de profiter de cet aveu pour briller d'un calembour à tendance zoophile et bocagophobe -+- LC in www.le-gnu.net - Sauter n'est pas jouir -+-