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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

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