Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:55:22 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Andrea Campi <andrea+freebsd_stable@webcom.it> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bios disk numbers and device names Message-ID: <200411300855.38435.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20041129123958.GA31719@webcom.it> References: <20041129101033.GH98559@grant.org> <20041129122059.GI98559@grant.org> <20041129123958.GA31719@webcom.it>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart1964952.m0BREJmuG5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:09, Andrea Campi wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:21:00AM -0500, Michael Grant wrote: > > Has anyone thought about this problem? Is there some spare space in > > the label that could be used for a device name that, if set, could > > be used in place of (or an alias for) a name like da0? > > GEOM_LABEL is what you're looking for. Check the glabel(8) man > page. In a nutshell, you'd do this: > > tunefs -L log /dev/ad1s1a > tunefs -L db /dev/da4s1a > tunefs -L www /dev/da4s1a > ... > > mount /dev/ufs/log /mnt/log > mount /dev/ufs/db /mnt/db > mount /dev/ufs/www /mnt/www > > (you get the idea). Obviously you can move use the /dev/ufs/* > devices in fstab as well. > > If later on you move the filesystems to a different device while > retaining the label (which means no tar, you have to use dd or > dump/restore), everything works. Ooh nice, the things you learn :) (Glad to be proven wrong..) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1964952.m0BREJmuG5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBq6Hi5ZPcIHs/zowRAnn5AJ0WBH6Qaz7x6pBkht3krBDy9lFQ9QCfZbgh UuYpLQu3mI5gd8tQT2419ww= =MKwA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1964952.m0BREJmuG5--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200411300855.38435.doconnor>