From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 3 22:52:41 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 630C3106566C for ; Thu, 3 May 2012 22:52:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from areilly@bigpond.net.au) Received: from nskntmtas01p.mx.bigpond.com (nskntmtas01p.mx.bigpond.com [61.9.168.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB1908FC0C for ; Thu, 3 May 2012 22:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nskntcmgw06p ([61.9.169.166]) by nskntmtas01p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20120503225239.QVOG25972.nskntmtas01p.mx.bigpond.com@nskntcmgw06p>; Thu, 3 May 2012 22:52:39 +0000 Received: from johnny.reilly.home ([124.188.162.192]) by nskntcmgw06p with BigPond Outbound id 5ase1j00849NTNc01aseQ6; Thu, 03 May 2012 22:52:39 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=MaHuSuDf c=1 sm=1 a=E3UA96qjU4/DKYBP5EH6OA==:17 a=z1TLwsU0kBEA:10 a=zX61To6fwxcA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=Iv6oGRHAcW35ojyYhosA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=E3UA96qjU4/DKYBP5EH6OA==:117 Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 08:52:38 +1000 From: Andrew Reilly To: Gustau =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E9rez?= i Querol Message-ID: <20120503225238.GB26284@johnny.reilly.home> References: <20120502063927.GA9559@johnny.reilly.home> <4FA0D844.8090105@brockmann-consult.de> <4FA0FE82.4040600@entel.upc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4FA0FE82.4040600@entel.upc.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart labels - why arent't some showing up in /dev/gpt/? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 22:52:41 -0000 On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:29:38AM +0200, Gustau Pérez i Querol wrote: > Al 02/05/2012 08:46, En/na Peter Maloney ha escrit: > >I have the same problem. Any time you boot off a CD/DVD and use import > >-f (and then don't export), or I guess use import -f a pool from > >anywhere, it does that. I don't know any non-zfs causes for the problem. > > When doing the import -f, use -d /dev/gpt to force zpool to search > for devices in /dev/gpt. That way the import will be done by gpt name, > instead of by device name. I'm not sure that would work if the /dev/gpt directory doesn't list the devices by gpt label at all? In my case, even if that helps with import, it doesn't seem to help with zpool create, because that doesn't take a -d option. It just wants device names. Cheers, -- Andrew