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

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Chris Stankevitz wrote:

> 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".

Labels on devices that are mounted are "withered" and disappear.