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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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