On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Garrett Cooper <yaneg...@gmail.com>
wrote:

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote:

glabel create <label> /dev/<blah>

Just tested that with a kernel from HEAD and a 8.x userland. This does
not seem to survive a reboot.

No, "create" makes a temporary label.  "label" writes a label to the last
block of the device.

... which does not seem be doable when the fs is mounted:

[in single-user, with only / mounted r/w and /dev]
# geom label label root /dev/ad0s1a
geom: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad0s1a: Operation not permitted.

As an anti-foot-shooting measure, this is blocked unless the flag sysctl kern.geom.debugflags |= 16 is set


Unfortunately, I do not have physical access to the machine. I guess
that transition will be a royal PITA for a lot of people.

Btw, you mentioned "device", I guess you meant "file-system", didn't you ?

The label is on the device, using space that is (hopefully) left over after the filesystem's allocation.

-Ben Kaduk
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