On 2014-06-02 11:50, Kurt Lidl wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Allan Jude <allanjude at freebsd.org> >> wrote: >>> It also tends to sometimes hide the gpt label provider on me (not sure >>> in which cases it does this, but it is annoying) >> >> This happens when something (e.g. zfs) happens to open the diskid >> provider instead of the gpt label. For me this ended up being a bit >> more than annoying; my swap was mounted in /etc/fstab via a gpt label >> so I silently lost my swap when I did an upgrade. > > I have seen this too, starting from a fresh install. > > The install process for stable/10 writes a /dev/gpt style label > into /etc/fstab for the swap space, and that never gets used, > because the /dev/diskid/xxxx stuff appears to take precedence. > > I put the following into /boot/loader.conf to make the system more > sane: > > kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable=0 > > -Kurt > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" I have a patch for the installer that solves this issue by explicitly using /dev/adaXpY or adaXsYb etc I thought the label was a nice way to do it, but it backfired. -- Allan Jude
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