Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:16:44 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom/label g_label.c Message-ID: <20050816081644.GA3944@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <20050815125814.GC2660@green.homeunix.org> References: <200508120005.j7C05ARc090857@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050815053757.GB2660@green.homeunix.org> <20050815070033.GA8368@garage.freebsd.pl> <20050815125814.GC2660@green.homeunix.org>
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--3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 08:58:14AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: +> > +> Why would we want to prevent the usage of a specific directory stru= cture +> > +> to represent GEOM's namespace, if that's what the administrator wan= ts? +> >=20 +> > If the label name is 'foo/bar' it doesn't seems right to create 'foo' +> > directory and provider 'bar' inside. The label could be also '../rando= m' +> > or something like this and I want to save administrator/user nasty sur= prises +> > when he inserts some random CD. +>=20 +> I like the idea of rejecting the latter, but what is the harm of the fir= st +> case? If I call something "foo/bar", I'll be surprised to find out that +> it's located at /dev/foo_bar... my preference would be for the name to be +> rejected completely instead of remapped, if a '/' is to not be allowed, +> but that's my own. # cd /dev/foo # rm/anything bar There was no label 'bar', right. Anyway. Instead of rejecting labels with '/' I can print a warning on the console that a bit different label will be used. What do you say? --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDAaDsForvXbEpPzQRAtomAJ9VFt74lm8rMXFdMk8ftSblcCHDMQCeNknC LKu5EYejqJZmm9BQDjxX9lg= =RY8L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF--
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