On 25/04/2011, at 6:55, Warner Losh wrote: >> The best way is to change to use GPT IDs (/dev/gptid/xxx) if you are on a >> GPT system) or UFS IDs (/dev/ufsid/xxx) if you can't. > > I've been running with ufs labels for a couple of years now, since the first > rumblings of this hit the streets. They work great no matter what the > underlying partitioning scheme. The one drawback is that if you have > multiple disks with the same labels, then the first one wins. Normally not a > problem, but when you have it, you need to ensure the right one is selected. > I avoid this problem by prefixing a hostname to the label...
This is why I prefer IDs since they are nominally unique (UFS ones, GPTs damn well better be :) Although I concede it is rather annoying to work out which is which, or type them out manually.. -- 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 _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
