Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:02:39 -0700 From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Drive labelling with ZFS Message-ID: <7fa67076-3ec8-4c25-67b9-a1b8a0aa5afc@holgerdanske.com> In-Reply-To: <b99a9f4e-f00d-c6fa-e709-d19e07ccb98e@holgerdanske.com> References: <03643051-38e8-87ef-64ee-5284e2567cb8@fjl.co.uk> <b99a9f4e-f00d-c6fa-e709-d19e07ccb98e@holgerdanske.com>
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On 06/13/2017 04:32 PM, David Christensen wrote: > Both [1] and [3] discuss the fact that a given drive, partition, file > system, etc., can be identified in various ways, manual or automatic, > but the kernel will pick one and "wither" the rest. Once a GPT label is > set manually, other methods should be disabled via settings in > /boot/loader.conf and the system rebooted ([1] p. 35): > > kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0" > kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0" Beware that all your disks need to have GPT labels, and those labels need to be carried forward into /etc/fstab, etc., before you reboot, as the kernel won't be able to find the disks using Disk ID or GPT GUID labels once those methods are disabled. David
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