Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:09:11 -0800 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@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: <4D77B437.7090604@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110309151938.GA1526@a91-153-123-205.elisa-laajakaista.fi> References: <201103081700.p28H0V9A080455@svn.freebsd.org> <20110308173611.GA44635@ws64.jh.dy.fi> <4D772F5B.5050508@FreeBSD.org> <20110309151938.GA1526@a91-153-123-205.elisa-laajakaista.fi>
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On 3/9/2011 7:19 AM, Jaakko Heinonen wrote: > 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. OK, so what should I do to resolve the issue in question? Should I go forward and MFC less generic patch to geom_label code to strip out the leading slashes from the ext2fs labels? -Maxim
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