On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:54:17PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Log: > > Include GEOM_LABEL in GENERIC. It's very useful and not well publicized > > enough. > > Bad idea. GEOM_LABEL can lead to filesystem corruption when used in > conjunction with mirrored disks. You mount /dev/ufs/root thinking it > corresponds to /dev/ar0s1a, when in fact it corresponds to /dev/ad0s1a > (in most cases, if ad0 is a component of RAID 1 array ar0, ad0s1a will > be tasted before ar0s1a, and GEOM_LABEL does not handle multiple > identically labeled providers gracefully).
While I agree there are serious problems with glabel and software RAID1 configurations, I don't think that warrants continuing to hide it from the rest of us. We should probably add more warnings to the appropriate manpages and fix the RAID implementations. -- Brooks
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