Hi, On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Garrett Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > Although this may not be a list of fixable issues, here are some observations > (in part with the new geom raid infrastructure): > 1. Channels are no longer fixed of course because ata uses cam now, and I > believe that device numbering is done based on probe ordering. This is fun to > work with when dealing with appliances or configurations that require > deterministic probe and mount, especially when drives fail, go missing, etc, > but can be hacked around in device.hints. This is why it would be nice for > geom labels to work in a sane manner. Out of context, but the same issue appear with network interfaces. If you're got 6 networks interface and the 3rd chip die, the 3 last get a bad numbering. I am not sure it is fixable by any device.hints.
The Linux' world has the same issue (well, worse actually, as all interfaces uses the same 'eth' name). RedHat has been/will be introducing "Consistent Network Device Naming"[0,1] in Fedora 15, which may be an interesting move. - Arnaud [0]: http://domsch.com/linux/lpc2010/lpc2010-network-device-naming.pdf [1]: http://domsch.com/blog/?p=455 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
