Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel
Use gpart and add created partition to your raidz- for example [code] backupstorage# gpart create -s GPT ad0 backupstorage# gpart add -b 34 -s 1953525101 -i 1 -t freebsd-zfs -l disk0 ad0 backupstorage# gpart show =34 1953525101 da0 GPT (932G) 34 19535251011 freebsd-zfs (932G) backupstorage# gpart show -l =34 1953525101 da0 GPT (932G) 34 19535251011 disk0 (932G) backupstorage# ls /dev/gpt disk0 backupstorage# zpool status -v pool: storage state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM storageONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk0 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk1 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk2 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk3 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk4 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk5 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk6 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/disk7 ONLINE 0 0 0 [code] Try to remove and insert disks- all it should happy =) PS: sorry for my english =) Gerrit Kühn пишет: Hi, I have created a raidz2 with disk I labeled with glabel before. Right after creation this pool looked fine, using devices label/tank[1-6]. I did some tests with replacing/swapping disks and so on. After doing a zpool offline tank label/tank6 remove disk camcontrol rescan all insert disk camcontrol rescan all zpool online tank label/tank6 I got the disk back, but not under the requested label, but under the da device name: pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: resilver completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Feb 9 14:56:37 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2 ONLINE 0 0 0 label/tank1 ONLINE 0 0 0 8.50K resilvered label/tank2 ONLINE 0 0 0 7.50K resilvered label/tank3 ONLINE 0 0 0 8.50K resilvered label/tank4 ONLINE 0 0 0 7.50K resilvered label/tank5 ONLINE 0 0 0 9K resilvered da6 ONLINE 0 0 0 13.5K resilvered errors: No known data errors Why does this happen? Is there any way to get zfs to use the label again? After the device is in use, the label in /dev/label disappears. When taking the device offline again, the label is there, but cannot be used: pigpen# zpool offline tank da6 pigpen# zpool status pool: system state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the errors using 'zpool clear' or replace the device with 'zpool replace'. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-9P scrub: resilver completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Feb 9 14:49:14 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM system ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 label/system1 ONLINE 3 617 0 126K resilvered label/system2 ONLINE 0 0 0 41K resilvered errors: No known data errors pool: tank state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the errors using 'zpool clear' or replace the device with 'zpool replace'. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-9P scrub: resilver completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Feb 9 14:56:37 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank DEGRADED 0 0 0 raidz2 DEGRADED 0 0 0 label/tank1 ONLINE 0 0 0 8.50K resilvered label/tank2 ONLINE 0 0 0 7.50K resilvered label/tank3 ONLINE 0 0 0 8.50K resilvered label/tank4 ONLINE 0 0 0 7.50K resilvered label/tank5 ONLINE 0 0 0 9K resilvered da6 OFFLINE 038 0 13.5K resilvered errors: No known data errors pigpen# ll /dev/label/ total 0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 104 Feb 9 14:04 lisacrypt1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 112 Feb 9 14:04 lisacrypt2 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 113 Feb 9 14:04 lisacrypt3 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 134 Feb 9 14:48 system1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 115 Feb 9 14:04 system2 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 116 Feb 9 14:04 tank1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 117 Feb 9 14:04 tank2 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 118 Feb 9 14:04 tank3 crw-r-
Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:27:21 -0700 Elliot Finley efinley.li...@gmail.com wrote about Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel: EF I ran into this same problem. you need to clean the beginning and end EF of your disk off before glabeling and adding it to your pool. clean EF with dd if=/dev/zero... Hm, I think I did that (at least for the beginning part). Maybe I was not quite clear what I did below: I removed and re-attached the *same* disk which was labelled with glabel and running fine brefore. The label was there when I inserted it back, but zfs went for the da device node anyway. If I see this problem again, I will try to wipe the complete disk before re-inserting it. cu Gerrit ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:24:12AM +0100, Gerrit Kühn wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:27:21 -0700 Elliot Finley efinley.li...@gmail.com wrote about Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel: EF I ran into this same problem. you need to clean the beginning and end EF of your disk off before glabeling and adding it to your pool. clean EF with dd if=/dev/zero... Hm, I think I did that (at least for the beginning part). Maybe I was not quite clear what I did below: I removed and re-attached the *same* disk which was labelled with glabel and running fine brefore. The label was there when I inserted it back, but zfs went for the da device node anyway. If I see this problem again, I will try to wipe the complete disk before re-inserting it. If I remember right, glabel metadata is stored in the last sector of the disk, not the beginning. glabel clear would probably be easier than dd if=/dev/zero'ing the entire disk. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel
2010/2/10 Gerrit Kühn ger...@pmp.uni-hannover.de: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:27:21 -0700 Elliot Finley efinley.li...@gmail.com wrote about Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel: EF I ran into this same problem. you need to clean the beginning and end EF of your disk off before glabeling and adding it to your pool. clean EF with dd if=/dev/zero... Hm, I think I did that (at least for the beginning part). Maybe I was not quite clear what I did below: I removed and re-attached the *same* disk which was labelled with glabel and running fine brefore. The label was there when I inserted it back, but zfs went for the da device node anyway. If I see this problem again, I will try to wipe the complete disk before re-inserting it. It seems there is some kind of race condition with zfs either picking up the disk itself or the label device for the same disk. I guess it's which ever it probes first. I wrote the GPT part of glabel for using it in situations like this, I had not a single report of this kind of problem with the gpt labels. Maybe you can try them too? My zpool looks like this: % zpool status pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/wd1 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/wd2 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/wd3 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/wd4 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/wd5 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors I already physically reordered the devices a few times and it always worked out correctly. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:18:49 +0100 Marius Nünnerich mar...@nuenneri.ch wrote about Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel: MN It seems there is some kind of race condition with zfs either picking MN up the disk itself or the label device for the same disk. I guess it's MN which ever it probes first. This could explain it. However, it seems that zfs sticks to the da device once it changed it's mind. Meanwhile I discovered one more system where is obviously has happened (although I cannot say when: luna# zpool status pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 label/disk-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 da0 ONLINE 0 0 0 label/disk-2 ONLINE 0 0 0 label/disk-3 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors MN I wrote the GPT part of glabel for using MN it in situations like this, I had not a single report of this kind of MN problem with the gpt labels. Maybe you can try them too? Yeah, I just have to look into how gpt labels work. I did not use them at all up to now. cu Gerrit ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:06:06PM +0100, Gerrit Kühn wrote: Hi, I have created a raidz2 with disk I labeled with glabel before. Right after creation this pool looked fine, using devices label/tank[1-6]. I did some tests with replacing/swapping disks and so on. After doing a zpool offline tank label/tank6 remove disk camcontrol rescan all insert disk camcontrol rescan all zpool online tank label/tank6 I got the disk back, but not under the requested label, but under the da device name: pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: resilver completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Feb 9 14:56:37 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2 ONLINE 0 0 0 label/tank1 ONLINE 0 0 0 8.50K resilvered label/tank2 ONLINE 0 0 0 7.50K resilvered label/tank3 ONLINE 0 0 0 8.50K resilvered label/tank4 ONLINE 0 0 0 7.50K resilvered label/tank5 ONLINE 0 0 0 9K resilvered da6 ONLINE 0 0 0 13.5K resilvered errors: No known data errors Why does this happen? Is there any way to get zfs to use the label again? After the device is in use, the label in /dev/label disappears. When taking the device offline again, the label is there, but cannot be used: pigpen# zpool offline tank da6 pigpen# zpool status pool: system state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the errors using 'zpool clear' or replace the device with 'zpool replace'. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-9P scrub: resilver completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Feb 9 14:49:14 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM system ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 label/system1 ONLINE 3 617 0 126K resilvered label/system2 ONLINE 0 0 0 41K resilvered errors: No known data errors pool: tank state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the errors using 'zpool clear' or replace the device with 'zpool replace'. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-9P scrub: resilver completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Feb 9 14:56:37 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank DEGRADED 0 0 0 raidz2 DEGRADED 0 0 0 label/tank1 ONLINE 0 0 0 8.50K resilvered label/tank2 ONLINE 0 0 0 7.50K resilvered label/tank3 ONLINE 0 0 0 8.50K resilvered label/tank4 ONLINE 0 0 0 7.50K resilvered label/tank5 ONLINE 0 0 0 9K resilvered da6 OFFLINE 038 0 13.5K resilvered errors: No known data errors pigpen# ll /dev/label/ total 0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 104 Feb 9 14:04 lisacrypt1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 112 Feb 9 14:04 lisacrypt2 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 113 Feb 9 14:04 lisacrypt3 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 134 Feb 9 14:48 system1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 115 Feb 9 14:04 system2 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 116 Feb 9 14:04 tank1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 117 Feb 9 14:04 tank2 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 118 Feb 9 14:04 tank3 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 101 Feb 9 14:04 tank4 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 102 Feb 9 14:04 tank5 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 103 Feb 9 15:02 tank6 pigpen# zpool online tank label/tank6 cannot online label/tank6: no such device in pool In a different thread I found the hint to use zpool replace to get to the usage of labels, but this seems not possible, either: pigpen# zpool replace tank label/tank6 invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: /dev/label/tank6 is part of active pool 'tank' pigpen# zpool replace -f tank label/tank6 invalid vdev specification the following errors must be manually repaired: /dev/label/tank6 is part of active pool 'tank' pigpen# zpool replace -f tank da6 label/tank6 invalid vdev specification the following errors must be manually repaired: /dev/label/tank6 is part of active pool 'tank' I'm running out of ideas here... Would zpool export and zpool import be necessary in this case? Also, I'm a little confused as to the use of glabel in this
Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:26:58 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote about Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel: JC I'm running out of ideas here... JC Would zpool export and zpool import be necessary in this case? I tried that several times, does not change anything. JC Also, I'm a little confused as to the use of glabel in this case. In JC what condition do your disk indices (e.g. X of daX) change? Are you JC yanking multiple disks out of a system at the same time and then JC shoving them back into different drive bays? I just did not want to do hard-wiring da-devices in the kernel. I have two lsi controllers, and they do not even come up in the same order every time I boot (mpt0/mpt1), let alone the disks picking up the same daX every time. I thought labeling the disks would be a good idea to prevent all these kinds of problems. JC Are you switching JC between storage subsystem drivers (ahci(4) vs. ataahci(4), for JC example) regularly? No (not yet al least :-). JC I've yet to be convinced glabel is worth bothering with, unless the JC system adheres to one of the above situations (which are worthy of JC strangulation anyway ;-) ). I would really like to know how this happened at all... meanwhile I used a spare disk under a different name to replace everything round-robin back to normal. However, I just recognized one more thing: pigpen# zpool status tank pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: resilver completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Feb 9 15:50:01 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2 ONLINE 0 0 0 label/tank1 ONLINE 0 0 0 11K resilvered label/tank2 ONLINE 0 0 0 10K resilvered label/tank3 ONLINE 0 0 0 11K resilvered label/tank4 ONLINE 0 0 0 10.5K resilvered label/tank5 ONLINE 0 0 0 11K resilvered label/tank6 ONLINE 0 0 0 15K resilvered errors: No known data errors pigpen# zpool offline tank label/tank5 pigpen# zpool status tank pool: tank state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the errors using 'zpool clear' or replace the device with 'zpool replace'. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-9P scrub: resilver completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Feb 9 15:50:01 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank DEGRADED 0 0 0 raidz2 DEGRADED 0 0 0 label/tank1 ONLINE 0 0 0 11K resilvered label/tank2 ONLINE 0 0 0 10K resilvered label/tank3 ONLINE 0 0 0 11K resilvered label/tank4 ONLINE 0 0 0 10.5K resilvered label/tank5 ONLINE 0 0 0 11K resilvered label/tank6 OFFLINE 039 0 15K resilvered errors: No known data errors pigpen# zpool offline tank label/tank5 cannot offline label/tank5: no valid replicas Why can't I offline a second disk? This is a raidz2 volume, after all?! cu Gerrit ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.comwrote: Also, I'm a little confused as to the use of glabel in this case. In what condition do your disk indices (e.g. X of daX) change? Are you yanking multiple disks out of a system at the same time and then shoving them back into different drive bays? Are you switching between storage subsystem drivers (ahci(4) vs. ataahci(4), for example) regularly? I've yet to be convinced glabel is worth bothering with, unless the system adheres to one of the above situations (which are worthy of strangulation anyway ;-) ). Use multiple disk controllers in a server, and watch as kernel updates and/or BIOS updates change the order that the controllers are probed, thus changing the dev node for every disk in the system. Use multiple disk controllers that use CAM, then move from an IDE-based CompactFlash adapter to a SATA-based CompactFlash adapter for the / filesystem, and watch the system renumber all your dev nodes. Use a RAID controller configured for JBOD or Single Disk arrays, and replace a drive while the server is running, which assigns the disk largest da number +1, then renumbers everything when the server reboots. After you run into those kinds of things a few times, you'll start to use glabel(8) for everything. Plus, it just makes things easier to understand. Instead of da0 through da25 which is a mix of SATA, RAID, and USB drives, you have cfdisk0, cfdisk1, disk00 through disk24, and so on. Personally, the greatest thing to ever happen to FreeBSD is the introduction of GEOM, and the addition of the glabel class. :) While ZFS does it's own disk labelling behind the scenes, using glabel just makes things easier. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel
I ran into this same problem. you need to clean the beginning and end of your disk off before glabeling and adding it to your pool. clean with dd if=/dev/zero... 2010/2/9 Gerrit Kühn ger...@pmp.uni-hannover.de Hi, I have created a raidz2 with disk I labeled with glabel before. Right after creation this pool looked fine, using devices label/tank[1-6]. I did some tests with replacing/swapping disks and so on. After doing a zpool offline tank label/tank6 remove disk camcontrol rescan all insert disk camcontrol rescan all zpool online tank label/tank6 I got the disk back, but not under the requested label, but under the da device name: pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: resilver completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Feb 9 14:56:37 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2 ONLINE 0 0 0 label/tank1 ONLINE 0 0 0 8.50K resilvered label/tank2 ONLINE 0 0 0 7.50K resilvered label/tank3 ONLINE 0 0 0 8.50K resilvered label/tank4 ONLINE 0 0 0 7.50K resilvered label/tank5 ONLINE 0 0 0 9K resilvered da6 ONLINE 0 0 0 13.5K resilvered errors: No known data errors Why does this happen? Is there any way to get zfs to use the label again? After the device is in use, the label in /dev/label disappears. When taking the device offline again, the label is there, but cannot be used: pigpen# zpool offline tank da6 pigpen# zpool status pool: system state: ONLINE status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the errors using 'zpool clear' or replace the device with 'zpool replace'. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-9P scrub: resilver completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Feb 9 14:49:14 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM system ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 label/system1 ONLINE 3 617 0 126K resilvered label/system2 ONLINE 0 0 0 41K resilvered errors: No known data errors pool: tank state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the errors using 'zpool clear' or replace the device with 'zpool replace'. see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-9P scrub: resilver completed after 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Feb 9 14:56:37 2010 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank DEGRADED 0 0 0 raidz2 DEGRADED 0 0 0 label/tank1 ONLINE 0 0 0 8.50K resilvered label/tank2 ONLINE 0 0 0 7.50K resilvered label/tank3 ONLINE 0 0 0 8.50K resilvered label/tank4 ONLINE 0 0 0 7.50K resilvered label/tank5 ONLINE 0 0 0 9K resilvered da6 OFFLINE 038 0 13.5K resilvered errors: No known data errors pigpen# ll /dev/label/ total 0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 104 Feb 9 14:04 lisacrypt1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 112 Feb 9 14:04 lisacrypt2 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 113 Feb 9 14:04 lisacrypt3 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 134 Feb 9 14:48 system1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 115 Feb 9 14:04 system2 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 116 Feb 9 14:04 tank1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 117 Feb 9 14:04 tank2 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 118 Feb 9 14:04 tank3 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 101 Feb 9 14:04 tank4 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 102 Feb 9 14:04 tank5 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 103 Feb 9 15:02 tank6 pigpen# zpool online tank label/tank6 cannot online label/tank6: no such device in pool In a different thread I found the hint to use zpool replace to get to the usage of labels, but this seems not possible, either: pigpen# zpool replace tank label/tank6 invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: /dev/label/tank6 is part of active pool 'tank' pigpen# zpool replace -f tank label/tank6 invalid vdev specification the following errors must be manually repaired: /dev/label/tank6 is part of active pool 'tank' pigpen# zpool replace -f tank da6 label/tank6 invalid vdev specification the following errors must be manually repaired: /dev/label/tank6 is part of active pool 'tank' I'm running out of ideas here... cu Gerrit
Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:10:21 +0100, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.comwrote: Also, I'm a little confused as to the use of glabel in this case. In what condition do your disk indices (e.g. X of daX) change? Are you yanking multiple disks out of a system at the same time and then shoving them back into different drive bays? Are you switching between storage subsystem drivers (ahci(4) vs. ataahci(4), for example) regularly? I've yet to be convinced glabel is worth bothering with, unless the system adheres to one of the above situations (which are worthy of strangulation anyway ;-) ). Use multiple disk controllers in a server, and watch as kernel updates and/or BIOS updates change the order that the controllers are probed, thus changing the dev node for every disk in the system. Use multiple disk controllers that use CAM, then move from an IDE-based CompactFlash adapter to a SATA-based CompactFlash adapter for the / filesystem, and watch the system renumber all your dev nodes. Use a RAID controller configured for JBOD or Single Disk arrays, and replace a drive while the server is running, which assigns the disk largest da number +1, then renumbers everything when the server reboots. After you run into those kinds of things a few times, you'll start to use glabel(8) for everything. Plus, it just makes things easier to understand. Instead of da0 through da25 which is a mix of SATA, RAID, and USB drives, you have cfdisk0, cfdisk1, disk00 through disk24, and so on. Personally, the greatest thing to ever happen to FreeBSD is the introduction of GEOM, and the addition of the glabel class. :) Yeah. GEOM is very very very nice. It is a very elegant solution to a lot of problems. I always wonder why other OS'es didn't pick it up. Ronald. While ZFS does it's own disk labelling behind the scenes, using glabel just makes things easier. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
