On Nov 26, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> Why are people bothering with GPT labels (or in some cases, glabels) >> when AHCI (whether it be ataahci.ko or ahci.ko) is in use? Under what >> circumstance would the device name change dynamically in this situation? >> I've never witnessed this happening with AHCI, at least on Intel >> systems, and I've hot-swapped hard disks many times over. > > It isn't specific to AHCI, but this is where most people encountered it > first. The issue in question is "how to make ZFS survive drive renaming" for > any cause - driver change, controller change, drive shuffling, etc. > > In general, ZFS will taste individual drives on "zpool import" so will try to > do the right thing, but it might pick up different labels for different > drives, etc. Using glabel tricks simply makes the naming a bit more > consistent. > >
What about "zpool import -d /dev/gpt/" ? Though last time I tried this it refused to work for some reason. Regards, Niki Denev _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
