SSD woes - boot
David Christensen
dpchrist at holgerdanske.com
Thu May 7 19:22:07 UTC 2020
On 2020-05-07 03:28, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 2020 11:16:25 +0200
> Christoph Kukulies <kuku at kukulies.org> wrote:
>
>> Now I got to figure out the UUID labeling thing - maybe :)
>
> I've just been going three rounds with labelling an iscsi and
> finally found a solution which may be useful to you since gpt and glabel
> labels just vanish with iscsi restarts.
>
> If kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable is set to 1 (/boot/loader.conf
> for persistence) then when a drive is discovered /dev/diskid/<serial_number>
> gets created.
That is an intriguing alternative. I expect it will solve the use-case
of adding, removing, and rearranging drives and adapters within a
computer. I also expect it will solve the use-case of moving the system
device from one computer to another computer. But, I expect it will
fail to solve the use-case of moving a raw system image from one device
to another device using dd(1), because the new device will have a
different serial number.
But, two out of three is better than zero out of three with device nodes.
David
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