From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jan 24 23:36:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F35B37B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:36:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25EF043F5B for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:36:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049092A89E; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:36:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Gordon Tetlow , Garance A Drosihn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS In-Reply-To: <3E31C4F5.972AA69C@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:36:23 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20030125073624.049092A89E@canning.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > > No, it actually creates device nodes in /dev/vol/, 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= 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 magi c > > 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. Umm, no thanks. > Gotta wonder why we need volume devices, when we know where we > are going to mount the thing... This is far too unreliable. Check what happens (for example) when you boot from floppy and mount your partitions as /mnt/foo. I dont want the system to helpfully remember that for me. I much prefer Gordon's approach. It's deterministic and isn't going to be messed with during the normal course of system administration. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message