Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:04:33 +0600 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS Message-ID: <20030125120433.GA24687@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <3E31C4F5.972AA69C@mindspring.com> References: <20030124212259.GJ53114@roark.gnf.org> <p05200f17ba5764ef8e3a@[128.113.24.47]> <20030124215753.GM53114@roark.gnf.org> <20030124222718.GN53114@roark.gnf.org> <3E31C4F5.972AA69C@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:57:57PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > > No, it actually creates device nodes in /dev/vol/<volname>, so it be more > > > like this: > > > > > > /dev/vol/rootfs / ufs rw 1 1 > > > /dev/vol/usrfs /usr ufs rw 2 2 > > > ...etc... > > > > > > I didn't go the Linux route and do LABEL=<foo> because there is alot of > > > black magic in the loader that reads /etc/fstab looking for the root > > > partition and I didn't want to mess with fstab.h and friends. > > > > I can also forsee being able to hook into devd to do some automounting magic > > for things like zip disks and cdroms (obviously not with FFS, but cd9660 > > support would be a good thing to have once GEOM recognizes cdroms). > > That's what "Last mounted on" is for. > > Gotta wonder why we need volume devices, when we know where we > are going to mount the thing... I second Terry here; seeing little-to-none sense in volume lables as they are. ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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