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Date:      Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:57:57 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>
Cc:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS
Message-ID:  <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>

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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...

-- Terry

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