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Date:      Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:37:30 -0400
From:      "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hal truncating block.device on freebsd-8.0rc1
Message-ID:  <20091023013730.6300fd64@shibato.opal.com>
In-Reply-To: <1256270523.54447.113.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <20091022212532.23a0b972@shibato.opal.com> <1256270523.54447.113.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:02:03 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Joe
> 

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.

Any pointers on where the defective code might lie?

	-jr



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