Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:36:23 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> 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: <20030125073624.049092A89E@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <3E31C4F5.972AA69C@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> > > No, it actually creates device nodes in /dev/vol/<volname>, so it be more
> > > like this:
> > >
> > > /dev/vol/rootfs / ufs rw 1 1
> > > /dev/vol/usrfs /usr ufs rw 2 2
> > > ...etc...
> > >
> > > I didn't go the Linux route and do LABEL=<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 magi
c
> > 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.
Umm, no thanks.
> Gotta wonder why we need volume devices, when we know where we
> are going to mount the thing...
This is far too unreliable. Check what happens (for example) when you boot
from floppy and mount your partitions as /mnt/foo. I dont want the system
to helpfully remember that for me.
I much prefer Gordon's approach. It's deterministic and isn't going to be
messed with during the normal course of system administration.
Cheers,
-Peter
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