Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 08:52:56 -0800 From: Dean Jones <dean.jones@oregonstate.edu> To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Filesystems <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: benefit of GEOM labels for ZFS, was Hard drive device names... serial numbers Message-ID: <CAMXYB4JdxwNS-1iL46Odednj-7MP4eZP0xon51WCumsuEdM2gg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOjFWZ5DH2wb8m2eTX-d1bxdfGLOCpDB06%2BRKqA7kL5Lyvawkg@mail.gmail.com> References: <512FE773.3060903@physics.umn.edu> <CAOjFWZ5DH2wb8m2eTX-d1bxdfGLOCpDB06%2BRKqA7kL5Lyvawkg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote: > You label the drive with something that tells you: > - enclosure > - column > - row > > For example, we use the following pattern: encX-A-# > > Where X tells you which enclosure it's in, A tells you which column it's in > (letters start at A increasing to the right), and # tells you the disk in > the column, numbered top-down. > > Whether you label the entire drive using glabel or just a GPT partition is > up to you. We use GPT labels. > I like your labeling convention. I'll add that glabel is FreeBSD specific, so if a pool might ever be imported under another OS that GPT labels are universal.
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