From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jan 25 12:13:50 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 1E9C637B405 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 12:13:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [129.250.170.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DABD43F1E for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 12:13:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (200-163-023-225.bsace7016.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br [200.163.23.225]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA75133; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 12:12:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E32EF99.C3E07015@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:12:09 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Dokuchaev Cc: Terry Lambert , Gordon Tetlow , Garance A Drosihn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS References: <20030124212259.GJ53114@roark.gnf.org> <20030124215753.GM53114@roark.gnf.org> <20030124222718.GN53114@roark.gnf.org> <3E31C4F5.972AA69C@mindspring.com> <20030125120433.GA24687@regency.nsu.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > 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. Well, Terry's solution wouldn't work on my very trivial system. After all, I have two /usr, two /var, even two /. One of each is chosen when I boot current, and the other when I boot stable. If it can't handle even something that simple, what it can handle? Nothing. The only thing it can handle is mounting from the devices we already know, thus giving us absolutely nothing. I can't swap disks and install a new system, and them mount partitions of the old disk to grab the data. I can't put in a foreign hd to copy something. And I don't even want to think of shared disks. Terry is only interested in one thing: docking his notebook. Honestly, that could be solved with devd alone. _This_ really helps managing server enviroments. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@professional.bsdconspiracy.net Spellng is overated anywy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message