diskmap(4) interface and live USB fstab file

2010-11-05 Thread Marcus
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#WhatsNew says: diskmap(4) interface People using USB attached storage or softraid(4) configurations often had difficulty with drive identifiers changing from boot to boot, or between hardware configurations. diskmap(4) allows you to mount drives by unique diskla

Re: diskmap(4) interface and live USB fstab file

2010-11-05 Thread Jacob Meuser
fwiw, in -current, USB attach order should be quite predictable. there are no longer multiple threads attaching USB devices. attachment is now done in a single thread, and it is done in the same order every time. of course, if you change which USB ports the devices are connected to between boots

Re: diskmap(4) interface and live USB fstab file

2010-11-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/05/10 08:37, Marcus wrote: > ---Question > Would somebody rewrite #flashmemLive section for the diskmap interface > change? > or how to edit the /etc/fstab for live USB device without worrying > wheter it would come up as sd0, sd1 sd2, etc. ---Answer: Somebody will, as time permi

Re: diskmap(4) interface and live USB fstab file

2010-11-06 Thread Russell
On 11/05/2010 04:27 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: fwiw, in -current, USB attach order should be quite predictable. there are no longer multiple threads attaching USB devices. attachment is now done in a single thread, and it is done in the same order every time. of course, if you change which USB po

Re: diskmap(4) interface and live USB fstab file

2010-11-06 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:27:50PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > fwiw, in -current, USB attach order should be quite predictable. there > are no longer multiple threads attaching USB devices. attachment is > now done in a single thread, and it is done in the same order every > time. > > of course