ZFS disk names and gptid under 8.2-RELEASE

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

On 01.03.2011 19:51, a.smith at ukgrid.net wrote:
> Previously they were showing as ada0p1 etc. I was quite happy with the
> previous method as I'd fixed the device names via /boot/device.hints and
> this made it (to me) perfectly human readable without having to use
> labels. Is this something that in 8.2 is now hard coded into ZFS? Ie I
> am forced to use gptid or disk labelling?

Hi, Andy.

You can disable gpt/gptid labels via device.hints or loader prompt:

kern.geom.label.gptid.enable=0
kern.geom.label.gpt.enable=0

When they will be disabled ZFS will use just device names. I think :)

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

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