Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:14:27 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com>, Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS: zdev names don't match devices Message-ID: <55A25A23.800@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <55A03DB2.3020407@sneakertech.com> References: <CACcSE1y90LKs7h2Dc%2BnaDOdmzVTf6zt9X1Au7YC-QBjVi0v5cg@mail.gmail.com> <55A03DB2.3020407@sneakertech.com>
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On 10/07/2015 22:48, Quartz wrote:
>> Did I screw
>> up my zfs setup?
>
> No. This is a quirk of the way the 10.x installer/ZFS works. There are a
> handful of different ways to identify a disk on FreeBSD besides the
> device ID, including UUIDs and gpt labels and such. Device IDs will
> change if you ever add/remove/reorder the physical drives, so the
> installer uses the other methods to be safer. I don't know why it uses a
> mix instead of doing the same thing for each drive though.
I've been bitten by the fact that disk partitions can have several names
before. Depending on the exact set up the same partition could be called
some or all of /dev/ada0p3, /dev/gpt/$gptlabel, /dev/gptid/$uuid,
/dev/diskid/DISK-${disklabel}p3 or /dev/ufs/$ufslabel. ZFS pool
importing seems to pretty much randomise which forms get used.
Personally I prefer to use partition names of the form /dev/gpt/xx-label
where xx- is a per machine and disk prefix so I can move disks between
machines without confusion in case of problems.
I haven't actually got round to trying this yet, but the appearance the
various forms of partition name under /dev seem to be controlled by the
kern.geom.label.xxx.enable sysctls. Thus if you wish to see the /dev/gpt
forms and not have ZFS grab some alternate name, try putting
kern.geom.label.gptid.enable=0
kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable=0
into /boot/loader.conf
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