From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 12:58:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F981065693 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:58:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugReporter@Haakh.de) Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de (mo-p00-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC058FC17 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:58:14 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1282568293; l=637; s=domk; d=haakh.de; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:References: Subject:CC:To:MIME-Version:From:Date:X-RZG-CLASS-ID:X-RZG-AUTH; bh=ymPZfu7FMpBwh1FCc0JBkLkx2p0=; b=uTmY8pdeIvW1gon9ACg1fGFqcE+FY0eH0VRROKxTP6w3Lixt2ubGTZ4w112bV7yfEbE uHdvY5vBNPaI7RQBEbsOykC2/PqenOI51yhQBV/3W/HztwkQd1Avh4R4bzHerHZ3aTPiu SzG5hyXaRYg4/ee6ZkmeocII2WVqSvS6Tmg= X-RZG-AUTH: :LWQcbViwW/e6OTbW0dHzwKkCepY3+zAQY9KdRPw9VcHc3bN9H/H+W1EMYwA= X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from abaton.Haakh.de (p57A739B9.dip.t-dialin.net [87.167.57.185]) by post.strato.de (jimi mo18) (RZmta 23.5) with ESMTP id 505646m7NCJLfM ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:58:13 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Crabberio.Haakh.de (crabberio.haakh.de [IPv6:2001:5c0:1508:1500:213:d4ff:fed0:bb7f]) by abaton.Haakh.de (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7NCw9m8084035; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:58:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bugReporter@Haakh.de) Message-ID: <4C727061.10904@Haakh.de> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:58:09 +0200 From: "Dr. A. Haakh" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100801 SeaMonkey/1.1.19 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp References: <86011.1282563971@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <86011.1282563971@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_HK_NAME_DR, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on abaton.Haakh.de X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:27:15 +0000 Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: devfs: proposal to create links for bootdevice X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:58:15 -0000 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.