RFC: ATA to CAM integration patch

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Louis Mamakos wrote:
> > Unfortunately you can't specify swap this way because it has no ID,
> > I don't know how hard it would be to add such a thing (which would
> > require a mkswap or somesuch, and modification to the dump & swap
> > code..)
>
> I use glabel to create containers with named labels that I then
> reference as swap devices.  (e.g., /dev/label/swap0, etc.)
>
> # swapinfo
> Device          1024-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/label/swap2     1044192        0  1044192     0%
> /dev/label/swap3     1044192        0  1044192     0%
> /dev/label/swap4     1044192        0  1044192     0%
> Total               3132576        0  3132576     0%

Ahh, of course, like this?
glabel label swap0 /dev/ad0s1b
(well that works for me but I'd like to check ;)

Any idea if that works with dumping? dumpon accepts it but..

Thanks!

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