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Date:      Fri, 9 Feb 2007 10:40:50 -0600
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: labels and layout
Message-ID:  <20070209164050.GA9016@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <45CC9315.6050500@freebsd.org>
References:  <op.tnhjv0np5sheu4@spyro.eiecon.net> <20070209150734.GB1193@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <45CC9315.6050500@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:28:21AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
> On 02/09/07 09:07, Brooks Davis wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:29:50PM +0100, Indigo wrote:
> >>Hello everyone,
> >> heres a batch of question:
> >>
> >>Im looking for a way to mount disks by label instead of device. Im on 6=
=2E2=20
> >>and I can't use ZFS until it gets released.
> >>I saw that tunefs and newfs have some label option - but I assumed it's=
 =20
> >>not the kind of label I want because no one is using it.
> >>
> >>An example with AdvFS (Tru64):
> >># mount
> >>root_domain#root on / type advfs (rw)
> >>/proc on /proc type procfs (rw)
> >>usr_domain#usr on /usr type advfs (rw)
> >>var_domain#var on /var type advfs (rw)
> >>
> >>I just think it's stupid to edit fstab every time Im swapping things =
=20
> >>inside the box - I think it's needless.
> >
> >ufs labels as set by tunefs and newfs work fine as long as your load the
> >geom_label module.  I'm honestly not sure what it isn't in GENERIC.
> >It's really useful.  You can also use glabel labels for your swap
> >partitions.
>=20
> I agree!  I use it heavily, pretty much on every system I touch.  I=20
> label swap, root, etc.  Who should we nag^H^H^Hask about including it in=
=20
> GENERIC?

I checked with Pawel and will commit it shortly.

-- Brooks

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