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Date:      Mon, 02 Jun 2014 19:13:18 -0400
From:      Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: diskid documentation
Message-ID:  <538D050E.9050406@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <538CFD5A.5000502@freebsd.org>
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On 2014-06-02 18:40, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>=20
> On 06/02/14 15:32, Allan Jude wrote:
>> On 2014-06-02 11:50, Kurt Lidl wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Allan Jude <allanjude at freebsd.org=
>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> It also tends to sometimes hide the gpt label provider on me (not s=
ure
>>>>> in which cases it does this, but it is annoying)
>>>> This happens when something (e.g. zfs) happens to open the diskid
>>>> provider instead of the gpt label.  For me this ended up being a bit=

>>>> more than annoying; my swap was mounted in /etc/fstab via a gpt labe=
l
>>>> so I silently lost my swap when I did an upgrade.
>>> I have seen this too, starting from a fresh install.
>>>
>>> The install process for stable/10 writes a /dev/gpt style label
>>> into /etc/fstab for the swap space, and that never gets used,
>>> because the /dev/diskid/xxxx stuff appears to take precedence.
>>>
>>> I put the following into /boot/loader.conf to make the system more
>>> sane:
>>>
>>> kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable=3D0
>>>
>>> -Kurt
>>>
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>> I have a patch for the installer that solves this issue by explicitly
>> using /dev/adaXpY or adaXsYb etc
>>
>> I thought the label was a nice way to do it, but it backfired.
>>
>=20
> Oh, zfsboot uses labels? The UFS partition editor never has, mostly for=

> this reason. Sorry for spreading misinformation -- I'm not really
> familiar with the ZFS code.
> -Nathan
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It only used the labels for the fstab entry for swap.

--=20
Allan Jude


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