Name/label/id metadata: how do I make it go away

Chris Stankevitz chris at stankevitz.com
Tue Sep 22 19:57:36 UTC 2015


On 9/22/15 12:12 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> I want to read the man page or source for whatever assigns diskid for
> glabel to subsequently advertise.  That process, for some reason, only
> assigns diskids for 10 of my 22 drives.  All drives are the same model
> number, although the drives have different histories.  (some drives
> lived in FreeNAS in a former life)


According to 'geom disk list', each of my 22 drives has an "ident", but 
only some of them have "labels".

"ident" is turned into a "label" via a process called "tasting":
   sys/geom/label/g_label_disk_ident.c
   sys/geom/label/g_label.c

Although it is not yet clear to me why apparently only some of my disks 
are "tasted".

Chris


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