Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:31:56 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS Message-ID: <p05200f1dba5b1cbfa49a@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20030124215753.GM53114@roark.gnf.org> References: <20030124212259.GJ53114@roark.gnf.org> <p05200f17ba5764ef8e3a@[128.113.24.47]> <20030124215753.GM53114@roark.gnf.org>
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At 1:57 PM -0800 1/24/03, Gordon Tetlow wrote: >On Fri, Jan 24, 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At 1:22 PM -0800 1/24/03, Gordon Tetlow wrote: >> >I'd like to get some review of my patch to add volume label >> >support to FFS. I've already changed struct fs (sorry non-i386 >> >users) to allocate some space for the label. I'm looking to >> >commit this relatively soon unless there is some major problems >> >with the review. >> > > > >http://people.freebsd.org/~gordon/patches/volume.diff > > > > This sounds interesting. The patch looks like it just adds >> support for setting and retrieving the label. How will this > > be usable at the /etc/fstab level? > >it actually creates device nodes in /dev/vol/<volname>, so it >will be more like this: > >/dev/vol/rootfs / ufs rw 1 1 >/dev/vol/usrfs /usr ufs rw 2 2 >...etc... While we're all having fun debating what Terry did or did not say, and what he does or does not want, has anyone been testing Gordon's actual change? I meant to try it this past weekend, but was distracted by network headaches (as I'm sure many others were...). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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