Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:01:24 +0200 From: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Label question...why does ufs label vanish on mount? Message-ID: <BFE34769-8E27-47C6-A3B1-734CE5A0806D@lassitu.de> In-Reply-To: <20101012185100.5AA661CC3E@ptavv.es.net> References: <20101012185100.5AA661CC3E@ptavv.es.net>
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Am 12.10.2010 um 20:51 schrieb Kevin Oberman: > For some reason the /dev/ufs/label entry that geom creates for every = UFS > formatted partition is deleted when the device is mounted. This is not > the case for other file systems, though I have not tried them all. It > makes the drive much harder to deal with when you have to keep track = of > which physical drive contains the labeled media. It is a particular > issue for hald and the tools which depend on it. In 8, only the ones that are not mounted are removed; they are restored = on unmount. So when you mount the filesystem via it's label, that entry = continues to exist. And it's not limited to any particular label type, = I've noticed the same with partitions that I used gmirror on. IIRC, in 7 only the device entry remained, and all label entries were = removed on mount. > Is there a good reason for this odd behavior of UFS? If there is not a > good reason, could it be changed? I don't know, but I'm curious myself. When I asked this very question = some time ago, I didn't get a response. Stefan --=20 Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Fon +49 151 14070811
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