Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:56:10 +0100 From: Peter Maloney <peter.maloney@brockmann-consult.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9-stable: what happened to geom_labels? Message-ID: <4F573ECA.6000001@brockmann-consult.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1203060752300.68597@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1203060752300.68597@wonkity.com>
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On 03/06/2012 05:08 PM, Warren Block wrote:
> A new install of 9-release, updated to 9-stable today with the GENERIC
> kernel.
> gpart show -l shows GPT labels, yet there isn't even a /dev/gpt
> directory.
>
> Has something changed with labels?
I haven't tried 9 yet, but this happens with 8.2 also. I hate this
bug... it seems so trivial. If there are no duplicate gpt labels now,
why do I care if the disks were used on a different system? The labels
are still there, so why not use them? [In Linux, the primary reason that
I use labels is actually to transfer them between machines.] I also have
one system where instead of seeing gptid, I only see the original device
names "eg. da0p2", which is even stranger. (on this system, I moved the
root to different disks, booted to the DVD before booting off the new
disks, imported, rebooted to the new disks; on others).
# zpool status zroot
pool: zroot
state: ONLINE
scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h3m with 0 errors on Tue Feb 28 16:06:45 2012
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
zroot ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
da0p2 ONLINE 0 0 0
da1p2 ONLINE 0 0 0
da2p2 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
# gpart show -l da0
=> 34 5860533101 da0 GPT (2.7T)
34 128 1 (null) (64k)
162 128862 - free - (62M)
129024 167731200 2 root1d1 (80G)
167860224 5692667904 3 data1d1 (2.7T)
5860528128 5007 - free - (2.5M)
# glabel list | grep da0p2
(no results)
# ls /dev/gpt/root1d1
(no results)
With ZFS It is caused by importing the pool when booted off different
media (eg. a DVD, or maybe another boot slice). When it happens, you
will find your slices under /dev/gptid, and in /boot/loader.conf there
is an option to change this. I don't know why it doesn't happen if you
don't import the pool.
# Setting this to 0 will get rid of the /dev/gptid directory and you
will see your /dev/gpt directory again.
kern.geom.label.gptid.enable=0
# Not sure what this does; I assume it means to show either gptid (if
not disabled above) or the original device name (eg. da0p2)
kern.geom.label.gpt.enable=0
I don't use the above settings, because although I can assume there are
never duplicate gptids, I don't know what would happen if there were
duplicate gpt labels. Normally, I would assume it would fall back to
gptid. Someone else could clarify this. (ZFS should only display the
gpt/gptid label and use its own guid [except with buggy pre-Sept. 2011
builds], but no idea about other things, like gmirror)
Also, assuming you have redundancy and want to spend time resilvering,
you can remove a disk, run "gpart delete -i ..." and "gpart create -i
... -l labelhere ..." to label it again ("gpart modify -l labelhere ..."
will not work), and then replace/reattach the disk to your RAID (which
is actually quite fast with ZFS if your partition start and end are the
same since it only needs to do a partial update).
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