Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:17:49 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>, Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS Message-ID: <20030126191749.9C7E52A89E@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <3E339AA8.CBD92BDE@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > > I first suggested this use of the "last mounted on" field back in > > > 1994, for the purpose of supporting auto-mounting on device "arrival" > > > for removable media. > > > > You should probably refer to it as your suggestion to rename "last > > mounted on" to "volume label", since people seem to think you want it > > to keep its original behaviour. > > 8-). > > It's string that doesn't need to be there; if the OS doesn't care > about its contents, why should you? 8-) 8-). I've found it useful when recovering trashed partition info to make sure I've found the right superblocks. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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