device ada n/ in kernconf, how to omitt for hv_storvsc.ko

Harald Schmalzbauer h.schmalzbauer at omnilan.de
Mon Mar 31 14:51:21 UTC 2014


Bezüglich Ben Morrow's Nachricht vom 31.03.2014 16:23 (localtime):
> Quoth "Chris H" <bsd-lists at bsdforge.com>:
>>>
>>> I'm experimenting with MS-Hyper-V and saw that as soon as hv_storvsc.ko
>>> is loaded, an IDE hdd attaches as 'da' _and_ 'ada' (the former seems to
>>> be called “FastIDE” on “synthetic storage driver” and gains efficiency
>>> for HDD workloads).
> 
> Is this a problem? Can't you just ignore the one you don't want to use?
> 
> If nothing else, you could hide the device node using devfs.rules.

Thanks for your suggestion.
The reason why I want to disable 'ada' is that I'm using /dev/gpt/LABEL
as mount device and 'ada' attaches before 'da', so glabel refers to ada…
instead of da.

I guess devfs.rules won't help here, but I'll try. Thanks,

-Harry

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