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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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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?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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