Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:14:09 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net> Cc: FreeBSD Geom <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Question about labels/names Message-ID: <15647.1225962849@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:42:45 CST." <491267B5.2090206@cyberleo.net>
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In message <491267B5.2090206@cyberleo.net>, CyberLeo Kitsana writes: >In the interests of keeping things neat and tidy, I recently, completely >at random, randomly included a / character in a geom name (glabel or >gmirror) and discovered that it quite happily created a subdirectory >under /dev (/dev/mirror or /dev/label, respectively). As far as DEVFS it is intended behaviour, for g_label/g_mirror I think it is accidental, but with lulf's recent addition to libgeom, probably beneficial. Any bugs it might cause would be userland utilities not being able to find their geom instances, and lulf's work offers the solution for that. Poul-Henning -- 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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