Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA

[Ted Faber]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 03:35:38PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 04/20/2011 15:18, Scott Long wrote:
> >I agree with what Alexander is saying, but I'd like to take it a step further.  We should all be using [...] mount-by-label
> 
> +1
> 
> When I first saw this on linux my gut reaction was "ewwww,
> different." But now that I've worked with it a bit, I really like
> it. Doing this by default in 9.0 would be a really useful step
> forward, and would allow greater innovation down the road.
> 
> Is there a handy tutorial somewhere for making this change in
> FreeBSD? Or is it even possible to do in a rational way?

Judging from the thread that followed this: no.

I agree with you that there should be and that mount-by-label is the way
to go.

I seem to recall some flakiness with mounting labelled gmirrors.  Anyone
know if that's been resolved?

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