Noisy GEOM_LABEL on boot of 7-STABLE

[Manolis Kiagias]

Luke Dean wrote:
>
> I just upgraded my old laptop from an older 7.1 release to the
> latest 7-STABLE for i386, and I started getting a lot of new
> GEOM_LABEL noise during the boot process.
> It says it's removing and adding labels every time it does the
> filesystem checks.
> What's that all about?
> Should I be concerned?
>
> This is just an old laptop with a simple out-of-the-box UFS
> filesystem with no frills or geom features that aren't default.
> I have never run tunefs or used glabel.
> kern.geom.label.debug=0
>
> FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE #1: Tue Apr 28 12:16:44 PDT 2009
>
> ad0: 57231MB <TOSHIBA MK6034GAX AC101A> at ata0-master UDMA33
> GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1a is ufsid/47225356153f5b56.
> GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1d is ufsid/472253592de7e9f5.
> GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1e is ufsid/47225356139009e4.
> GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1f is ufsid/47225356087c310e.
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> .
> .
> <snip>
> .
> .
> Starting file system checks:
> GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/47225356153f5b56 removed.
> /dev/ad0s1a: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
> /dev/ad0s1a: clean, 111842 free (1610 frags, 13779 blocks, 0.6%
> fragmentation)
> GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s1a is ufsid/47225356153f5b56.
> GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/47225356139009e4 removed.

In short, no. These messages have generally caused concern and they may
be removed for 7.2-RELEASE