From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jan 25 4: 1:26 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 A847237B401 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 04:01:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [193.124.215.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7849043F18 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 04:01:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danfe@regency.nsu.ru) Received: from drweb by mail.nsu.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18cOzb-00044j-00; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:00:59 +0600 Received: from regency.nsu.ru ([193.124.210.26]) by mail.nsu.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18cOzZ-00043Z-00; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:00:57 +0600 Received: from regency.nsu.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by regency.nsu.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0PC4ZH7027244; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:04:35 +0600 (NOVT) (envelope-from danfe@regency.nsu.ru) Received: (from danfe@localhost) by regency.nsu.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0PC4XIW027213; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:04:33 +0600 (NOVT) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:04:33 +0600 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Terry Lambert Cc: Gordon Tetlow , Garance A Drosihn , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS Message-ID: <20030125120433.GA24687@regency.nsu.ru> 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> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Envelope-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com, gordont@gnf.org, drosih@rpi.edu, arch@freebsd.org 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 On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:57:57PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > > No, it actually creates device nodes in /dev/vol/, 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= 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). > > 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... I second Terry here; seeing little-to-none sense in volume lables as they are. ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message