On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Aisaka Taiga wrote: > Hello, hope you're having a nice day, > > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > The UFSID is unique for a given newfs (mostly - it is the timestamp > > I believe). > > It is unique; however, I'm not talking about it being unique. More > like from a console standpoint. > Imagine your system's asking for manual input for the root partition; > what's easier to type - /dev/ufs/root, > /dev/ufsid/{inserthugenumberinhexhere} or /dev/physical-device? The latter obviously, however that situation is rare, and you can list the available devices by entering '?'. > Reading through /etc/fstab when it uses ufsids is a pain as well. True, but it is not a very common thing to read through it.. > By the way, in my opinion the current freebsd install system should > allow running GEOM commands before partitioning/labelling devices. > And should also recognize GEOM devices, as well, since for a clean > install the transition to labels & gmirror is either 'not safe' > (kern.geom.debugflags=16, then label the live system's drive) OR > requires a dump/restore (label the 2nd drive, label the partitions, > then copy data there, reboot to the 2nd drive, add the first to the > mirror). sysinstall is fun like that, it has many limitations.. You might want to try the bsdinstaller snapshots.. > P.S. Also, bsdlabel and glabel seem like ambiguous names (as well as > using the term 'label' for both slice layout and GEOM labels) - so I > see no problems naming AHCI devices "daX". ;) bsdlabel is a historic, and glabel is a fairly intuitive name.. -- 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
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