Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 19:24:07 -0700 From: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> To: Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com> Cc: Andrey Fesenko <f0andrey@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS should prefer the most specific... or something. Message-ID: <CAOtMX2iJaz_kixjbCe%2BZ-9gSLf5wxSwxc%2Bes4oZEmSFfGo0M-Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CACpH0MdQKuHD9XNRh=VYa6nHh5YpQnpa-yjmHyk08j7mZUEg1g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CACpH0Meg5MjOGCohSMrAdwdRG_smVNY6CNVRaUSXw9cq0x2YsA@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BK5SrP=p7xqFOjPM4BvDuyitM951biu8ZNoKuin8A_TfeG1xQ@mail.gmail.com> <CACpH0MdQKuHD9XNRh=VYa6nHh5YpQnpa-yjmHyk08j7mZUEg1g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Andrey Fesenko <f0andrey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> "A disk can be specified by a full path to the device or the geom(4)
>> provider name" see zpool(8)
>> For example gpt lables
>>
>>
> Yeah, no. You didn't read carefully. Let me be more clear. Some random
> rejig of device names causes zfs to abandon your carefully constructed
> name. GPT and GPT labels are more stable, but some machines will not allow
> a GPT label. Anyways, after the random event, you have maximally long,
> low-signal-to-noise ratio names.
Zaphod,
You can fix your particular problem by setting
"kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable=0" in /boot/loader.conf.
-Alan
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