Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:27:18 -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: <20030124222718.GN53114@roark.gnf.org> 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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--KbRlJ7rsgYPVCYDX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:57:53PM -0800, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:52:57PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >=20 > > 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=3D/blah /mnt/blah ufs rw 2 2 > >=20 > > (if so, I'd also like something like: > > IFLABEL=3D/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) >=20 > No, it actually creates device nodes in /dev/vol/<volname>, so it be more > like this: >=20 > /dev/vol/rootfs / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/vol/usrfs /usr ufs rw 2 2 > ...etc... >=20 > I didn't go the Linux route and do LABEL=3D<foo> because there is alot of > black magic in the loader that reads /etc/fstab looking for the root > partition and I didn't want to mess with fstab.h and friends. I can also forsee being able to hook into devd to do some automounting magic for things like zip disks and cdroms (obviously not with FFS, but cd9660 support would be a good thing to have once GEOM recognizes cdroms). -gordon --KbRlJ7rsgYPVCYDX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+Mb3GRu2t9DV9ZfsRAjAhAJ0ZHF+Zs2k32/+oAEWqUmM0sZN0QQCggdHb 1BFAsP/6xxPnzWUAIORumYA= =kCew -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KbRlJ7rsgYPVCYDX-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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