On Apr 25, 2011, at 12:52 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 25/04/2011, at 6:55, Warner Losh wrote: >>> The best way is to change to use GPT IDs (/dev/gptid/xxx) if you are on a >>> GPT system) or UFS IDs (/dev/ufsid/xxx) if you can't. >> >> I've been running with ufs labels for a couple of years now, since the first >> rumblings of this hit the streets. They work great no matter what the >> underlying partitioning scheme. The one drawback is that if you have >> multiple disks with the same labels, then the first one wins. Normally not >> a problem, but when you have it, you need to ensure the right one is >> selected. I avoid this problem by prefixing a hostname to the label... > > This is why I prefer IDs since they are nominally unique (UFS ones, GPTs damn > well better be :) > > Although I concede it is rather annoying to work out which is which, or type > them out manually..
For things like ZFS, UUIDs aren't so bad because it hides them. For things like /etc/fstab, I prefer the named approach. This allows me to survive a newfs on a partition if I have to without having to hack my /etc/fstab. I have a large /tmp partition at times, and it gets newfs'd if there's a bad problem... Warner _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
