From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jan 27 9:32: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6387837B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:32:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.2.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A822C43F13 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:32:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h0RHVv2w228406; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:31:58 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030124215753.GM53114@roark.gnf.org> References: <20030124212259.GJ53114@roark.gnf.org> <20030124215753.GM53114@roark.gnf.org> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:31:56 -0500 To: Gordon Tetlow From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/, 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