From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 7 19:19:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE8C7106566B for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:19:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB838FC16 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:19:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q27JJ09I077376; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:19:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q27JJ0vT077373; Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:19:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:19:00 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Peter Maloney In-Reply-To: <4F573ECA.6000001@brockmann-consult.de> Message-ID: References: <4F573ECA.6000001@brockmann-consult.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:19:01 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9-stable: what happened to geom_labels? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:19:09 -0000 On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Peter Maloney wrote: > 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? ... > # 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 This does remove /dev/gptid, but /dev/gpt did not reappear. > # 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 Setting that to 1 still does not cause the /dev/gpt directory to appear. What's odd about this is that it did work on 8-stable recently. A system here with i386 8-stable from January 13 has both sysctls enabled and both gpt and gptid directories in /dev. So does an i386 9-stable from February 9. The system where they aren't appearing is amd64 from Tuesday (March 6). None of these systems have ZFS filesystems.