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Date:      Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:47:40 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS
Message-ID:  <20030124234740.GA58038@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E31C4F5.972AA69C@mindspring.com>
References:  <20030124212259.GJ53114@roark.gnf.org> <p05200f17ba5764ef8e3a@[128.113.24.47]> <20030124215753.GM53114@roark.gnf.org> <20030124222718.GN53114@roark.gnf.org> <3E31C4F5.972AA69C@mindspring.com>

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In the last episode (Jan 24), Terry Lambert said:
> Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> That's what "Last mounted on" is for.
> 
> Gotta wonder why we need volume devices, when we know where we are
> going to mount the thing...

So we can uniquely identify server1_usr and server2_usr when they're
both on a SAN?  That's what we use labels for here.  Very useful if you
accidentally mess up the SAN masks for a server.  You don't need to use
labels, but they have their uses.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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