From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 9 14:29:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B29F16A401 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:29:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from indigo@voda.cz) Received: from smtp.voda.cz (gw.voda.cz [212.24.154.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E5E13C481 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:29:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from indigo@voda.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.voda.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3B843C5D for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:29:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.voda.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.voda.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16969-06 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:29:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from spyro.eiecon.net (unknown [213.151.77.190]) by smtp.voda.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C61CE43C37 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 15:29:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:29:50 +0100 To: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" From: Indigo Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.10 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at voda.cz Subject: labels and layout X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:29:55 -0000 Hello everyone, heres a batch of question: Im looking for a way to mount disks by label instead of device. Im on 6.2 and I can't use ZFS until it gets released. I saw that tunefs and newfs have some label option - but I assumed it's not the kind of label I want because no one is using it. An example with AdvFS (Tru64): # mount root_domain#root on / type advfs (rw) /proc on /proc type procfs (rw) usr_domain#usr on /usr type advfs (rw) var_domain#var on /var type advfs (rw) I just think it's stupid to edit fstab every time Im swapping things inside the box - I think it's needless. Second thing I was wondering about is: Did anyone ever try to break down the performance requirements of various system directories? Basically - which directories benefit from faster seeks or higher read/write speeds. I know this highly depends on actual services and that I should put the machine together and watch its needs before finalizing disk-layout - but it would take a lot of time and Im looking for any advice that can save me time. Thanks, Vasek