Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:44:32 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hal truncating block.device on freebsd-8.0rc1 Message-ID: <1256276672.54447.130.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20091023013730.6300fd64@shibato.opal.com> References: <20091022212532.23a0b972@shibato.opal.com> <1256270523.54447.113.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20091023013730.6300fd64@shibato.opal.com>
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--=-bKG/awRu6IX3AbecJihr Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 01:37 -0400, J.R. Oldroyd wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:02:03 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.c= om> wrote: > >=20 > > Hal doesn't support volumes with spaces in their names. This is > > documented in the FreeBSD HAL FAQ at > > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html . Patches to add support > > for this are very welcome. > >=20 > > Joe > >=20 >=20 > That doc, and some googling which found two year old email from you, > show that this is apparently a long-standing problem with geom/glabel. >=20 > Any pointers on where the defective code might lie? hald/freebsd/hf-storage.c. The fix would be to process kern.geom.confxml instead of kern.geom.conftxt. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-bKG/awRu6IX3AbecJihr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkrhQrwACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4dtAQCeM8CjXxmrI4hv/SvWycx/qTC+ 5C4An2JDovYsNTC2HNcYnHyH/grIu3WN =fd60 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-bKG/awRu6IX3AbecJihr--
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