Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:53:38 -0800 From: "Eugene M. Kim" <ab@astralblue.net> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS Message-ID: <20030125185338.GA54691@purple.the-7.net> In-Reply-To: <20030125120433.GA24687@regency.nsu.ru> References: <20030124212259.GJ53114@roark.gnf.org> <p05200f17ba5764ef8e3a@[128.113.24.47]> <20030124215753.GM53114@roark.gnf.org> <20030124222718.GN53114@roark.gnf.org> <3E31C4F5.972AA69C@mindspring.com> <20030125120433.GA24687@regency.nsu.ru>
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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
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