Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:35:11 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom_label verbosity patch Message-ID: <20090423123511.GB1798@mail.wheel.pl> In-Reply-To: <gspm4e$92n$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <gspkp8$4g4$1@ger.gmane.org> <20090423120035.GA1798@mail.wheel.pl> <gspm4e$92n$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:15:14PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:52:01PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I want to ask for a community review of these patches: > >> > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/diffs/geom_label_errlevel.txt > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/diffs/glabel.8_errlevel.txt > >> > >> The intent is to make glabel less chatty on detection of new providers, > >> etc. [...] > > > > This is on purpose, so don't change that. One can always set it to -1. > > Possible, but it would make it unique among other GEOM classes. Almost every GEOM class informs about creating providers, so what you suggest is inconsistent. > > Instead, we should implement possibility to turn on/off selected labels. > > For example things like ufsid should be turned off by default. > > Anyone else agrees with this? > > > This way we not only make it less chatty again, but also not to pollute > > /dev/. > > One way to lessen it is to stop creating individual directories for each > label class, as discussed before. How is it going to reduce number of providers in /dev/? -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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