From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 18 08:39:52 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 437571065670; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:39:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from walter.pelissero@iesy.net) Received: from mail01.ish.de (mailout.ish.de [80.69.98.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D0E18FC12; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:39:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [95.222.206.96] (account walter.pelissero@iesy.net HELO zaphod.home.lan) by mail-fe-01.mail01.ish.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.18) with ESMTPSA id 383261268; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:39:49 +0200 Received: from zaphod.home.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zaphod.home.lan (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7I8ZRNb021658; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:35:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wcp@zaphod.home.lan) Received: (from wcp@localhost) by zaphod.home.lan (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o7I8ZR3S021657; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:35:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wcp) From: walter@pelissero.de (Walter C. Pelissero) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19563.39759.502418.257102@zaphod.home.lan> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:35:27 +0200 To: Oliver Fromme In-Reply-To: <201008172034.o7HKYEDd092137@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <19562.55739.75948.533618@zaphod.home.lan> <201008172034.o7HKYEDd092137@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Mailer: VM 8.1.1 under 23.2.1 (i386-portbld-freebsd8.1) X-Attribution: WP X-For-Spammers: blacklistme@pelissero.de X-MArch-Archive-ID: 129416 X-MArch-Processing-Time: 0.36s Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/149424: fstab and labels with whitespace X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: walter@pelissero.de List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:39:52 -0000 Oliver Fromme writes: > Walter C. Pelissero wrote: > > Oliver Fromme writes: > > > What prevents you from labelling a disk 'backup\500GB'? > > > > Besides some remorse about the uninspired name, nothing keeps you from > > that. Are you also going to boot from that volume? Because that is > > what you were arguing just before. So, if you aren't, your argument > > about rendering systems unbootable is moot. > > You don't have to "boot from it". It's sufficient to have > an entry in /etc/fstab that doesn't have "noauto" or "xx". which is implied by: "It seems to be unlikely there are systems out there relying on a boot-time mounted filesystem whose device path (or label) contains a backslash. Certainly not a great deal of those." therefore: after the patch the vast majority will still be able to boot without problems, mend their fstab, if they need to, and proceed with their normal life. Anyhow, thank you again for your acute contribution. > If you don't believe that, I suggest you try it. I'm not > going to reply to the rest of your statements which seem > to be based on wrong assumptions. Is the Oktoberfest already on? The only wrong assumption is that you might be sober one day. -- walter pelissero http://www.pelissero.de