Disable tasting through sysctl

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Mon Sep 23 20:18:12 UTC 2013


Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > The patch below is a workaround for the "bouncing geom" problem that
> > occurs primarily with labels.  Say da0p1 and da1p1 are labeled "mir0"
> > and "mir1" respectively, so they exist both as /dev/da[01]p1 and as
> > /dev/gpt/mir[01].  Create a mirror on top of gpt/mir[01], then stop the
> > mirror.  GEOM won't retaste gpt/root[01], but it will see and taste
> Do you mean gpt/mir[01]?

Doh, yes.  A slip of the tongue because I often use two system disks
with the boot loader in p1, a UFS root gmirrored across p2, individual
swap partitions in p3 and a ZFS mirror across p4.

> I was in need to such an option few time myself, so it is fine by me.

Thanks.  I'll submit it to re at .

DES
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