Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:56:48 +0400 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Jones <mlists@pmade.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Logical Disk to Physical Drive Mapping Message-ID: <20090613205648.9840e240.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <86ljnxyy01.fsf@pmade.com> References: <86ljnxyy01.fsf@pmade.com>
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--Signature=_Sat__13_Jun_2009_20_56_48_+0400_cs_qmfPex/MXByWR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:53:50 -0600 Peter Jones <mlists@pmade.com> mentioned: > Given the situation where you have several identical physical drives, > what is the best way to turn logical labels such as da5 into a physical > identifier like "the drive in slot 4"? >=20 > It looks like I could use dmesg, some assumptions, and glabel to label > the logical disks. However, I plan to use ZFS and as far as I can tell > glabel doesn't support ZFS. >=20 If you're using ZFS you probably don't need labels at all. AFAIK, ZFS stores all of its information in the on-disk metadata, and you always access data via ZFS volume labels. --=20 Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE --Signature=_Sat__13_Jun_2009_20_56_48_+0400_cs_qmfPex/MXByWR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKM9pWAAoJEKN82nOYvCd0vbgQAJ0H54WsXim3VGHtTdXbSsn+ B1ViU4i4XZUcwUkC2nwn6Js2uPhDTggWyIZmodfd/eJ3j/HbenDE2XZI9XuhCsMD vQezM+O7LUV79JPBj1Vn7+rVl408qUWerZwLIfTVgec3EEVW+tq83q4JMESrzfLH S1W1Wh/a0BT+EXzbquVjyhRzPrHN3O17SDw02dnmYpxkWmh0acoTTFw2ZEyqmmVt xLriMRBzz9bYXvo3/e+6dJa7WzuA0P+THZGThNL8G7wcPcxjD1wOusjOR1bmibQs WhyTnWeu8FjueZkXtqEtH52KoH1AuMzyXfiAH4iTEg799VInnAcja95FNqP7+86G dqScWXN+RoGHW6m7fdIb14j2YavgiTyS/x6I+k9y1CgFA4PtHbNS9T2tMn3tghTn KHTiPhYErOtM98Z5EGtVEsJK511kv5iBSqcbcLrWhG94BexM3hsAWSLeMxkG803m EZOCoXg5WRcUKpCsUi/741htJ41B58fEydz+mtHCQ2tVehAazdoQ5Y2EOmGGt7xs 6fUE6U3cKtQtT92UsA+sZB9x/wDpSuyC12gDktZn3ZkQGhPpFcvCCV0ijYYGMpUw 7poajqzi4KGJkrU/trJYS2Pa5x/BADqMPuE4IQZNejgnXnwmpQjJHJzCbu67pk/Q A0qdG/9NfVuB1iMcCO1E =QteQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Sat__13_Jun_2009_20_56_48_+0400_cs_qmfPex/MXByWR--
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