From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jan 27 3:42:40 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 75BAF37B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:42:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from purple.the-7.net (purple.the-7.net [209.126.178.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 938D743E4A for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:42:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@purple.the-7.net) Received: from purple.the-7.net (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by purple.the-7.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0PIrhJ6066452; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:53:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab@purple.the-7.net) Received: (from ab@localhost) by purple.the-7.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0PIrclA066439; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:53:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ab) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:53:38 -0800 From: "Eugene M. Kim" To: Alexey Dokuchaev Cc: Terry Lambert , Gordon Tetlow , Garance A Drosihn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS Message-ID: <20030125185338.GA54691@purple.the-7.net> References: <20030124212259.GJ53114@roark.gnf.org> <20030124215753.GM53114@roark.gnf.org> <20030124222718.GN53114@roark.gnf.org> <3E31C4F5.972AA69C@mindspring.com> <20030125120433.GA24687@regency.nsu.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030125120433.GA24687@regency.nsu.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 06:04:33PM +0600, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > > > > I can also forsee being able to hook into devd to do some automounting magic > > > 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. > > > > Gotta wonder why we need volume devices, when we know where we > > are going to mount the thing... > > I second Terry here; seeing little-to-none sense in volume lables as > they are. `Last mounted on' is useful only when a disk is assumed to be used on one computer. If you wanted to mount a removable data disk at /data on computer A but at /mydata on computer B and so on, we do need some volume label. Eugene To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message