Re: Heads up - minor usb disk key probing change

[Dennis Melentyev <dennis.melentyev@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Matt,

2009/6/26 Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>:
>    USB disk keys in the master branch will now attach starting
>    at da8 instead of da0.  This is to reduce interference between
>    USB disk keys and AHCI/SILI probes which also attach to da*.
>
>    The relatively few people booting from USB disk keys will need
>    to adjust the /etc/fstab on the disk key.

Isn't moving usb drives from da* to something like uda* or du* or
whatever else more reasonable?
It requires changes in scripts anyway, so why not just give them
another namespace?

Although, have no idea of how difficult is it code-wise.

>
>    The kernel should still be able to automount the root but you can
>    avoid unnecessary root mount scanning by supplying the exact mount
>    string via /boot/loader.conf, e.g. vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:da8s1a".
>
>                                        -Matt
>                                        Matthew Dillon
>                                        <dillon@backplane.com>
>



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Dennis Melentyev