From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 23 12:35:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E69F106567C; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:35:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from p.dawidek@wheel.pl) Received: from mx3.wheel.pl (grom.wheel.pl [91.121.70.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80818FC21; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:35:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from p.dawidek@wheel.pl) Received: from localhost (unknown [10.10.2.1]) by mx3.wheel.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E6811626F; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:35:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mx3.wheel.pl Received: from mx3.wheel.pl ([10.10.2.1]) by localhost (mx3.wheel.pl [10.10.2.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qa3nO-1xpTlu; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:35:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.wheel.pl (ghf58.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.12.187.58]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx3.wheel.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 247451626B; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:35:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (unknown [10.0.2.3]) by mail.wheel.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 121BE29C4C; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:35:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.wheel.pl ([10.0.2.3]) by localhost (mail.wheel.pl [10.0.2.3]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TU7xLh3H6Qqg; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:35:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (pjd.wheel.pl [10.0.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.wheel.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3713E29C49; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:35:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:35:11 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Ivan Voras Message-ID: <20090423123511.GB1798@mail.wheel.pl> References: <20090423120035.GA1798@mail.wheel.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-PGP-Key-URL: http://www.wheel.pl/pgpkeys/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT i386 Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom_label verbosity patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:35:05 -0000 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!