On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Tom Evans wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Daniel O'Connor <docon...@gsoft.com.au>wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: > > > > operator 0, 164 Oct 21 15:34 > > > > /dev/gptid/6866d8b0-a8ac-11de-8e07-00241dd192cc > > > > > > Have you tried naming the GPT partitions and using /dev/gpt/* ? > > > > Nope, how would I do that? > > > > I'd be surprised if it worked TBH.. > > Use the -l flag to gpart when creating the partitions. I'm not sure > if there is a way to label them after the fact. I found it led to a > much more descriptive/reliable pool, as I can plug the disks in > anywhere and get the same results:
Descriptive yes, reliable no (IMO :) UUIDs should always be more reliable so long as the "UU" part of their name holds true :) No reason you couldn't have both thought. > pool: tank > state: ONLINE > scrub: none requested > config: > > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > tank ONLINE 0 0 0 > raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > gpt/samsung15-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > gpt/samsung15-2 ONLINE 0 0 0 > gpt/samsung15-3 ONLINE 0 0 0 > gpt/samsung15-4 ONLINE 0 0 0 > gpt/seagate15-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > gpt/seagate15-2 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > I use the geom name 'gpt/foo' when referring to the disks in zpool. > All works perfectly. Hmm I did.. [midget 11:13] ~ >sudo gpart modify -i 2 -l "Midget-ZFS-1" ad4 ad4p2 modified [midget 11:15] ~ >sudo gpart show -l ad4 => 34 1953525101 ad4 GPT (932G) 34 8388608 1 (null) (4.0G) 8388642 1944059904 2 Midget-ZFS-1 (927G) 1952448546 1076589 - free - (526M) but I get no /dev/gpt directory.. [midget 11:14] ~ >ls -la /dev/gpt ls: /dev/gpt: No such file or directory Maybe the UUID label got their first so it won't have an alias (although the UUID is an alias for /dev/ad4p2..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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