Re: bios disk numbers and device names

From: Daniel O'Connor (doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au)
Date: 11/29/04

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    To: Andrea Campi <andrea+freebsd_stable@webcom.it>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:55:22 +1030

    On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:09, Andrea Campi wrote:
    > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:21:00AM -0500, Michael Grant wrote:
    > > Has anyone thought about this problem? Is there some spare space in
    > > the label that could be used for a device name that, if set, could
    > > be used in place of (or an alias for) a name like da0?
    >
    > GEOM_LABEL is what you're looking for. Check the glabel(8) man
    > page. In a nutshell, you'd do this:
    >
    > tunefs -L log /dev/ad1s1a
    > tunefs -L db /dev/da4s1a
    > tunefs -L www /dev/da4s1a
    > ...
    >
    > mount /dev/ufs/log /mnt/log
    > mount /dev/ufs/db /mnt/db
    > mount /dev/ufs/www /mnt/www
    >
    > (you get the idea). Obviously you can move use the /dev/ufs/*
    > devices in fstab as well.
    >
    > If later on you move the filesystems to a different device while
    > retaining the label (which means no tar, you have to use dd or
    > dump/restore), everything works.

    Ooh nice, the things you learn :)
    (Glad to be proven wrong..) 

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