Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:58:09 +0200 From: "Dr. A. Haakh" <bugReporter@Haakh.de> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: devfs: proposal to create links for bootdevice Message-ID: <4C727061.10904@Haakh.de> In-Reply-To: <86011.1282563971@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <86011.1282563971@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp schrieb: > In message <4C72569B.9050807@Haakh.de>, "Dr. A. Haakh" writes: > >> Hi, >> >> it would be nice if device-nodes like bda, bdb, bdc ... could be created >> at boot time referring to the partitions of the boot-device. >> >> With these nodes in your fstab you don't have to edit fstab if devices >> change. >> > > Use g_label ? > glabel is an option if you have just one slice to boot from. If you have several OSes using ufs (e.g 7.3 and 8.1) then you would have to use different labels and again different entries in fstab. Generic entries like the ones described above would be helpful.
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