From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 5 18:13:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9AE16A4CE; Wed, 5 May 2004 18:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spiff.melthusia.org (spiff.melthusia.org [207.67.244.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB1143D5E; Wed, 5 May 2004 18:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gtetlow@spiff.melthusia.org) Received: from spiff.melthusia.org (gtetlow@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spiff.melthusia.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4618sGc029483; Wed, 5 May 2004 18:08:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gtetlow@spiff.melthusia.org) Received: (from gtetlow@localhost) by spiff.melthusia.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i4618q6c029482; Wed, 5 May 2004 18:08:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gtetlow) Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 18:08:51 -0700 From: Gordon Tetlow To: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-ID: <20040506010851.GD10016@spiff.melthusia.org> References: <20040503175810.62d3f0fb.nork@FreeBSD.org> <55894.1083575066@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55894.1083575066@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: Norikatsu Shigemura cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new GEOM feature - geom_vol_msdosfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 01:13:15 -0000 --oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 11:04:26AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20040503175810.62d3f0fb.nork@FreeBSD.org>, Norikatsu Shigemur= a writ > es: > > I made a geom_vol_msdosfs GEOM module. It provides a feature > > like geom_vol_ffs.=20 >=20 > I think this is a great idea! >=20 > I wonder if it would be smarter to collect all these in one geom > class rather than have one for each volume label metadata format, > having it in one GEOM class would simplify name-collision handling. >=20 > On the other hand, name collisions are already passively neutered > in DEVFS, so if we can live with "Don't do that then" handling of > it, then there is no reason to not have them as different GEOM > classes, which certainly makes for simpler and cleaner code. I would prefer the separate code. Esp when it comes to looking at things like CD9660. I took a passing interest to see what it would take to make that happen and I wanted to claw my eyes out. -gordon --oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAmZAjRu2t9DV9ZfsRAkFJAJ96nxxXAqB1WW/4SxwEZWS6qAutQQCgmBtM u9Zkso3E01HbuidMQaXM+M4= =VQvK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oJ71EGRlYNjSvfq7--