fixating USB Storage

[Jonathan Vomacka]

On Feb 4, 2012 4:54 AM, "Mike Clarke" <jmc-freebsd2 at milibyte.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 04 February 2012, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
>
> > I don't know if anyone else has already mentioned it to you in
> > response to this question, but I just very recently switched over to
> > using volume labels to mount my partitions instead of device names.
> >  I was having an ongoing issue where this external USB drive's device
> > number assignment would change from one boot to the next, toggling
> > back and forth between da0 and da4 (strange!).
>
> Sounds similar to my experience. Normally my internal 4 slot memory card
> reader is assigned devices da[0-3] and when the USB memory stick is
> inserted it comes up as da4. If the USB stick is present on booting
> then it appears as da0 and the card reader is da[1-4]. So it looks like
> occupied slots are given priority when numbers are assigned at boot
> time.
>
> --
> Mike Clarke
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Do you know if it is different with zfs system?