Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:33:55 -0800 From: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS Message-ID: <20030127173355.GZ53114@roark.gnf.org> In-Reply-To: <p05200f1dba5b1cbfa49a@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20030124212259.GJ53114@roark.gnf.org> <p05200f17ba5764ef8e3a@[128.113.24.47]> <20030124215753.GM53114@roark.gnf.org> <p05200f1dba5b1cbfa49a@[128.113.24.47]>
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--p4I5Bchq69Fe6bBp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:31:56PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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... >=20 >=20 > 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...). Thanks for steering things back around. I'd also like to emphasize that this will be my first C code commit to the tree, so code pointers would be greatly appreciated. -gordon --p4I5Bchq69Fe6bBp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+NW2DRu2t9DV9ZfsRAg5LAJ9XrYGAqS7MkL92TswYQQnW5bGncQCgqAQR acGeDDCthmlbHrq/T5Cr9HE= =nfBd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --p4I5Bchq69Fe6bBp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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