Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:52:57 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS Message-ID: <p05200f17ba5764ef8e3a@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20030124212259.GJ53114@roark.gnf.org> References: <20030124212259.GJ53114@roark.gnf.org>
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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 > >The patch is basically a GEOM module (which allows you to use >volume labels for your root partition is you so desire (my >laptop's root slice is mounted from /dev/vol/rootfs)) and a >couple modifications to add labels (newfs, tunefs). 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? Will this let us do something similar to what linux allows for /etc/fstab, such as: LABEL=/blah /mnt/blah ufs rw 2 2 (if so, I'd also like something like: IFLABEL=/blah /mnt/blah ufs rw 2 2 which means *iff* the OS finds a partition labelled /blah, then it should mount it at /mnt/blah, and that it is *not* an error when no such labelled volume is found) -- 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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