Re: Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA

From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:38:08 -0700
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Doug Barton <dougb_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 04/20/2011 15:18, Scott Long wrote:
>>
>> I agree with what Alexander is saying, but I'd like to take it a step
>> further.  We should all be using [...] mount-by-label
>
> +1
>
> When I first saw this on linux my gut reaction was "ewwww, different." But
> now that I've worked with it a bit, I really like it. Doing this by default
> in 9.0 would be a really useful step forward, and would allow greater
> innovation down the road.
>
> Is there a handy tutorial somewhere for making this change in FreeBSD? Or is
> it even possible to do in a rational way?

glabel create <label> /dev/<blah>
sed -i 's,/dev/<blah>,/dev/labels/<label>,g' /etc/fstab

?

Thanks,
-Garrett
Received on Wed Apr 20 2011 - 20:38:09 UTC

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