Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 06:44:42 -0500 From: Jonathan Vomacka <juvix88@gmail.com> To: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> Cc: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fixating USB Storage Message-ID: <CABfwSFrW%2BwSacq3arxds30qs4LnkdYXkfGV0MZ7Em0fPu7P=Mg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201202040953.19456.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> References: <CAB3Sx6evad7VOWoK3AHF6DW0y0k6ZgpBwPUMSu7Ag8-dQqSJTw@mail.gmail.com> <CAB3Sx6eGEe1qkEfYdq4JWVNHzb35wouNq6EHQ45hPPUpSdEAwA@mail.gmail.com> <20120203231847.5279be28@cox.net> <201202040953.19456.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
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On Feb 4, 2012 4:54 AM, "Mike Clarke" <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> wrote: > > On Saturday 04 February 2012, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > > > I don't know if anyone else has already mentioned it to you in > > response to this question, but I just very recently switched over to > > using volume labels to mount my partitions instead of device names. > > I was having an ongoing issue where this external USB drive's device > > number assignment would change from one boot to the next, toggling > > back and forth between da0 and da4 (strange!). > > Sounds similar to my experience. Normally my internal 4 slot memory card > reader is assigned devices da[0-3] and when the USB memory stick is > inserted it comes up as da4. If the USB stick is present on booting > then it appears as da0 and the card reader is da[1-4]. So it looks like > occupied slots are given priority when numbers are assigned at boot > time. > > -- > Mike Clarke > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Do you know if it is different with zfs system?
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