Comments on: Disk labels now have labeled parts https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/03/15/disk-labels-now-have-labeled-parts/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:41:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Aaron LI https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/03/15/disk-labels-now-have-labeled-parts/comment-page-1/#comment-487991 Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:41:58 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=22660#comment-487991 Interesting. First time to know devtab(5). Thanks.

]]> By: name https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/03/15/disk-labels-now-have-labeled-parts/comment-page-1/#comment-487987 Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:08:40 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=22660#comment-487987 unlike fbsd, dfbsd has devtab(5)

]]> By: name https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/03/15/disk-labels-now-have-labeled-parts/comment-page-1/#comment-487986 Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:04:33 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=22660#comment-487986 device renumbering is sometimes an issue on many os, including fbsd, dfly fixed it many moons ago: “features: DEVFS’s integration with block device serial numbers which allows a DragonFly system to reference disk drives by serial number instead of by their base device name. Thus drives can be trivially migrated between physical ports and driver changes (e.g., base device name changes) become transparent to the system.”

]]> By: mer https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/03/15/disk-labels-now-have-labeled-parts/comment-page-1/#comment-487985 Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:50:13 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=22660#comment-487985 Nice. A little bit of FreeBSD GEOM behavior.
That always helps with entries in fstab, you don’t need to worry about device renumbering.

More good work by Matt.

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