Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 13:54:25 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org>, David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSD woes - boot Message-ID: <20200507135425.705ad9b8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20200507112813.91e445a39bffbcdb906f05e8@sohara.org> References: <28BC0AA1-FF58-406A-A5EE-FB0641D2C2B5@kukulies.org> <b5a1c463-e522-f9f1-8bd5-d092953d797b@holgerdanske.com> <E35B2E1F-8BEB-458C-97BF-3EF030CA0643@kukulies.org> <20200507112813.91e445a39bffbcdb906f05e8@sohara.org>
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On Thu, 7 May 2020 11:28:13 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 2020 11:16:25 +0200 > Christoph Kukulies <kuku@kukulies.org> wrote: > > > Now I got to figure out the UUID labeling thing - maybe :) > > I've just been going three rounds with labelling an iscsi and > finally found a solution which may be useful to you since gpt and glabel > labels just vanish with iscsi restarts. > > If kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable is set to 1 (/boot/loader.conf > for persistence) then when a drive is discovered /dev/diskid/<serial_number> > gets created. Another option might be using UFSIDs, but of course that only applies for UFS filesystems (or partitions holding them): Any partitions with ufsid labels can be mounted in this way, eliminating the need to manually create permanent labels, while still enjoying the benefits of device name independent mounting. Source: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-glabel.html See 18.7.1. at the bottom of the page. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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