On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:38:21PM +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote: +> Would it be a good idea to store the device name, or something similar, +> in the metadata? +> +> For example, if I have a disk divided like this: +> +> |--------------ad0--------------| +> |-------------ad0s1-------------| +> |----ad0s1g-----|-----ad0s1d----| +> +> The metadata is written into the last sector, so when the stripe/concat +> classes are tasting they can't work out whether it belongs to ad0s1d, +> ad0s1 or ad0. +> +> I've had problems creating stripes and concats with this configuration. I added '-h' option for 'label' command in gconcat(8), gstripe(8) and gmirror(8), which hardcode providers' names into metadata. Thank you. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd_at_FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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