Re: diskid documentation

On 2014-06-02 18:40, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> 
> On 06/02/14 15:32, Allan Jude wrote:
>> 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
>>>
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>> 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.
>>
> 
> Oh, zfsboot uses labels? The UFS partition editor never has, mostly for
> this reason. Sorry for spreading misinformation -- I'm not really
> familiar with the ZFS code.
> -Nathan
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It only used the labels for the fstab entry for swap.

-- 
Allan Jude