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Date:      Wed, 9 Mar 2011 17:19:38 +0200
From:      Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r219400 - head/sys/geom/label
Message-ID:  <20110309151938.GA1526@a91-153-123-205.elisa-laajakaista.fi>
In-Reply-To: <4D772F5B.5050508@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201103081700.p28H0V9A080455@svn.freebsd.org> <20110308173611.GA44635@ws64.jh.dy.fi> <4D772F5B.5050508@FreeBSD.org>

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On 2011-03-08, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> On 3/8/2011 9:36 AM, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
> >>   Some linux distros put mount point into the ext2fs labels, such as '/', or
> >>>     '/boot', which confuses the devfs code and can cause userland programs to
> >>>     fail reading /dev/ext2fs directory with weird error code, such as any
> >>>     program that uses pwlib.
> 
> I have only observed this issue with 7.4.

OK, good to know. Head version of devfs should not have the problems you
described in the commit message.

> It looks like r213526 might work as well, but unfortunately this
> revision is not directly applicable to the 7-STABLE. Do you have any
> plans to MFC it into 7.x?

I don't have plans to MFC it to stable/7. r213526 is related to larger
set of devfs changes I committed last year.

-- 
Jaakko



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