From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 27 20:14:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E61B016A407 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:14:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: from mail.garage.freebsd.pl (arm132.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.17.198.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A38E43FEC for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:14:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id B3C2751845; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:14:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (ana50.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.17.82.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68AA51388; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:14:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:11:48 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-ID: <20060627201148.GC24054@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20060627.120424.-1625880159.imp@bsdimp.com> <62426.1151433799@critter.freebsd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cHMo6Wbp1wrKhbfi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <62426.1151433799@critter.freebsd.dk> X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail.garage.freebsd.pl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_XBL autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessing disks via their serial numbers. X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:14:46 -0000 --cHMo6Wbp1wrKhbfi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 06:43:19PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > And please remember: This entire thing only comes up because > Pawel doesn't want to solve the problem correctly for g_label, > this is the fall-back "quick&dirty" solution. If you are talking about restricting labels names here, I had the code, but it was backed out. Please see the archives. I still doesn't like it. > The correct solution is to give the users a reliable tool for > stealing the necessary labelsector from the end of a filesystem. I wrote this twice already in this thread, but let me write it again. File systems are not the whole world. For example. I've a disk ad0. I configured gbde(4) on top of it. I create file system on top of ad0.bde. Now, let's assume I implemented shrinkfs(8) as you suggested, how can I shrink gbde(4) provider? --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --cHMo6Wbp1wrKhbfi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEoZEEForvXbEpPzQRAqYpAKDTP80YTQdddKX/VNzYHNP8fxeANACfb3x7 mSsP1Kl6BkPSs2t0/3NOZlk= =VVLi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cHMo6Wbp1wrKhbfi--