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Date:      Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:21:36 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, Jason Campbell <jason.lee.campbell@gmail.com>, Matt Thyer <matt.thyer@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick
Message-ID:  <4E60F480.6040706@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E600753.4030400@freebsd.org>
References:  <CAMG0UAh1=Jy_eD5t%2BV_MkhVJrMFoe-OQQFgut1USr6v9CWMj4A@mail.gmail.com>	<alpine.BSF.2.00.1108302109370.49311@wonkity.com>	<CACM2%2B-4aU8VqaaKQnAXszFsU-097NLqHGdJP_u5LnbBWVoVtng@mail.gmail.com>	<24B9852A-8DE4-4BC6-9B55-2D74E414E31D@gmail.com>	<alpine.BSF.2.00.1109011345510.80217@wonkity.com> <CACM2%2B-4uLz-3e_NcgKVUj2cfDnA27Wn2qgazUYtNrXrtz0tYYg@mail.gmail.com> <4E600753.4030400@freebsd.org>

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on 02/09/2011 01:29 Nathan Whitehorn said the following:
> On 09/01/11 17:23, Matt Thyer wrote:
>> Probably the real solution is to use MBR and have BSDinstall and the install
>> kernel support UFS labels.  Space on the memstick is not an issue.
> 
> Both support that. The issue is makefs(8).

Here's a small patch that adds FFS volume label/name support to makefs:
http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/makefs.ffs-label.diff
Documentation is not updated.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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