From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 18 08:40:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C136B1065675 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:40:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6758FC15 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7I8e8LS011557 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:40:08 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o7I8e84I011556; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:40:08 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:40:08 GMT Message-Id: <201008180840.o7I8e84I011556@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: walter@pelissero.de (Walter C. Pelissero) Cc: 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 C. Pelissero" List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:40:09 -0000 The following reply was made to PR conf/149424; it has been noted by GNATS. From: walter@pelissero.de (Walter C. Pelissero) To: Oliver Fromme Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/149424: fstab and labels with whitespace Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:35:27 +0200 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