AHCI driver and static device names

[Rob]

glabel looks to place a label on the whole disk, but the manpage is 
unclear (to me) how the partitions are handled.  If I use glabel to 
label a disk "test" and this disk has 4 partitions on it, then how is 
each partition accessed?  testp1...testp4 for gpt?

The other option seems to be to use tunefs or a partitioning tool to 
label each partition, which is even more ugly imo.

Rob

On 12/2/11 9:27 PM, Derrick Ryalls wrote:
> Look for disk labels, I think glabel is the command.  Then you use
> /dev/label/mylabel etc for the disks.
>
> Let me know if this isn't enough to find the right man page or spot in
> the handbook.  I use it in my raid array but am running short on time
> right now.
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Rob <lists at midsummerdream.org
> <mailto:lists at midsummerdream.org>> wrote:
>
>     I was getting ready to install the latest FreeBSD 9-RCs image, and I
>     found that 9 now defaults to using the ahci driver for sata disks.
>       This would be great if it weren't for the fact that the ahci
>     driver seems to do dynamic device name assignment as opposed to the
>     static ones used with the older drivers.
>
>     I've looked around on google and while this is mentioned (in old
>     threads), the "solution" is to use labels or elaborate mapping via
>     hints which really aren't solutions imo.  If I have 15 disks in an
>     array, I want to be able to label them and know which bay is which
>     device name. If I have to replace a drive, I have no idea what
>     dynamic device name it will have when it comes time to partition
>     (and label, if I were using that).  I could probably figure it out
>     by looking at what disks are used on the system, but that's more
>     work that it really should be.
>
>     Is there a way to use the ahci driver and get static device names?
>
>     Rob
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