From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jan 24 15:47:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB68737B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:47:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 387D943E4A for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:47:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h0ONlenK032366; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:47:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:47:40 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Terry Lambert Cc: Gordon Tetlow , Garance A Drosihn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS Message-ID: <20030124234740.GA58038@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030124212259.GJ53114@roark.gnf.org> <20030124215753.GM53114@roark.gnf.org> <20030124222718.GN53114@roark.gnf.org> <3E31C4F5.972AA69C@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E31C4F5.972AA69C@mindspring.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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