Hi Matt, 2009/6/26 Matthew Dillon <[email protected]>: > USB disk keys in the master branch will now attach starting > at da8 instead of da0. This is to reduce interference between > USB disk keys and AHCI/SILI probes which also attach to da*. > > The relatively few people booting from USB disk keys will need > to adjust the /etc/fstab on the disk key.
Isn't moving usb drives from da* to something like uda* or du* or whatever else more reasonable? It requires changes in scripts anyway, so why not just give them another namespace? Although, have no idea of how difficult is it code-wise. > > The kernel should still be able to automount the root but you can > avoid unnecessary root mount scanning by supplying the exact mount > string via /boot/loader.conf, e.g. vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:da8s1a". > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <[email protected]> > -- Dennis Melentyev
