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Date:      Tue, 16 Aug 2005 05:08:03 -0400
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@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:  <20050816090803.GD2660@green.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050816081644.GA3944@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <200508120005.j7C05ARc090857@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050815053757.GB2660@green.homeunix.org> <20050815070033.GA8368@garage.freebsd.pl> <20050815125814.GC2660@green.homeunix.org> <20050816081644.GA3944@garage.freebsd.pl>

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On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:16:44AM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> 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 structure
> +> > +> to represent GEOM's namespace, if that's what the administrator wants?
> +> > 
> +> > 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 '../random'
> +> > or something like this and I want to save administrator/user nasty surprises
> +> > when he inserts some random CD.
> +> 
> +> I like the idea of rejecting the latter, but what is the harm of the first
> +> 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?

That seems much more conservative -- GEOM doing a uprintf() and printf()
to indicate that it's modified things.  Something a sysadmin would notice
at boot and a user at mount time of whatever.

-- 
Brian Fundakowski Feldman                           \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\
  <> green@FreeBSD.org                               \  The Power to Serve! \
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