Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:51:55 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom_label and directories under /dev Message-ID: <20100315235155.GA3574@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <4B9EBEE7.5080803@cyberleo.net> References: <20100315195059.GA1331@a91-153-117-195.elisa-laajakaista.fi> <hnm64s$pfs$1@dough.gmane.org> <4B9EBEE7.5080803@cyberleo.net>
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--a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 06:12:39PM -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > On 03/15/2010 03:43 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > > Jaakko Heinonen wrote: > >> So it's probably a dead end to try to suggest disallowing of '/'? > >> Unfortunately it's not easy to fix all problems with directories. For > >> starters devfs doesn't support removal of directories at all. > >=20 > > I have no idea why "/" would be allowed - it isn't in regular filenames > > so why would this be special? I wote to remove slashes. >=20 > Please be very careful with such a change. I rely on this behaviour > pretty heavily, to keep things hierarchically arranged. Such a change > would break pretty much every box I run. No worries. I agree it is useful. File system labels are not file names and I'm happy that our devfs support transparent directory creation, because thanks to this we can use directory names in labels for free. There sure are devfs bugs that have to be fixed and not avoided by limiting flexibility in GEOM providers names selection. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkueyBsACgkQForvXbEpPzSVNwCg0AlP/mAylsa3bk3A3S4g7csP gaUAni3NHJFTyVopxAp/Fk1RMbPcDs0D =t3aP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C--
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