From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jan 26 0:26:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6714837B401 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 00:26:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA70F43F18 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 00:26:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0074.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.74] helo=mindspring.com) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18ci6z-0001JQ-00; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 00:25:53 -0800 Message-ID: <3E339AA8.CBD92BDE@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 00:22:00 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Alexey Dokuchaev , Gordon Tetlow , Garance A Drosihn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS References: <20030124212259.GJ53114@roark.gnf.org> <20030124215753.GM53114@roark.gnf.org> <20030124222718.GN53114@roark.gnf.org> <3E31C4F5.972AA69C@mindspring.com> <20030125120433.GA24687@regency.nsu.ru> <3E32EF99.C3E07015@newsguy.com> <3E331344.6A2A60BC@mindspring.com> <20030125235221.GA23649@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4d3c2223a32ca456308319e049f291c0e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Nelson wrote: > > I first suggested this use of the "last mounted on" field back in > > 1994, for the purpose of supporting auto-mounting on device "arrival" > > for removable media. > > You should probably refer to it as your suggestion to rename "last > mounted on" to "volume label", since people seem to think you want it > to keep its original behaviour. 8-). It's string that doesn't need to be there; if the OS doesn't care about its contents, why should you? 8-) 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message