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Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>,
	Jason Campbell <jason.lee.campbell@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick
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on 02/09/2011 01:29 Nathan Whitehorn said the following:
> On 09/01/11 17:23, Matt Thyer wrote:
>> Probably the real solution is to use MBR and have BSDinstall and the install
>> kernel support UFS labels.  Space on the memstick is not an issue.
> 
> Both support that. The issue is makefs(8).

Here's a small patch that adds FFS volume label/name support to makefs:
http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/makefs.ffs-label.diff
Documentation is not updated.

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Andriy Gapon