RELENG_7: chatty geom

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Wed Apr 15 02:21:56 UTC 2009


On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Raphael Becker wrote:
> PS: In gerneral I find it very useful to operate on labels instead of
> "legacy" device names, especially for S-SATA disks. I even use
> /dev/ufs/ROOT instead of /dev/ad<random>s1a which works perfectly:

I advise you to preface the label with the hostname.

It can be veeery annoying when you plug that disk into another machine 
and the label conflicts :)

(Although now the ID one works I think I will change over to that)

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