Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:06:40 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@ixsystems.com> Cc: mav@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please review: patch to retain device name for dumpdev. Message-ID: <14235.1351757200@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <50921B44.20400@ixsystems.com> References: <50921B44.20400@ixsystems.com>
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-------- In message <50921B44.20400@ixsystems.com>, Alfred Perlstein writes: >Poul-Henning, what do you think? Is there a nicer way? Perhaps a way >to include the "/dev/$device" I think there are private implemenations where dumpdev is a network thing, so too much magic string editing is probably not a good idea. Given that /dev is really just a view into GEOMs namespace, one could argue for "GEOM:ada0p3" that that may be going overboard in sematic correctness. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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