From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 17:09:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 973E01065677; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 17:09:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sobomax@sippysoft.com) Received: from mail.sippysoft.com (mail.sippysoft.com [4.59.13.245]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3627F8FC14; Wed, 9 Mar 2011 17:09:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from s0106005004e13421.vs.shawcable.net ([70.71.175.212] helo=[192.168.1.79]) by mail.sippysoft.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1PxMsw-000Lmr-8n; Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:09:18 -0800 Message-ID: <4D77B437.7090604@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:09:11 -0800 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Sippy Software, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaakko Heinonen 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> In-Reply-To: <20110309151938.GA1526@a91-153-123-205.elisa-laajakaista.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: sobomax@sippysoft.com X-ssp-trusted: yes Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r219400 - head/sys/geom/label X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:09:19 -0000 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