From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jan 24 14:59:38 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 66B1E37B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:59:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net (bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37DC43F13 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:59:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0189.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.189] helo=mindspring.com) by bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18cCnI-0007FR-00; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:59:29 -0800 Message-ID: <3E31C4F5.972AA69C@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:57:57 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: Garance A Drosihn , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS References: <20030124212259.GJ53114@roark.gnf.org> <20030124215753.GM53114@roark.gnf.org> <20030124222718.GN53114@roark.gnf.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a469a69ea338127b4338cf10a2a949511d548b785378294e88350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c 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 Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > No, it actually creates device nodes in /dev/vol/, so it be more > > like this: > > > > /dev/vol/rootfs / ufs rw 1 1 > > /dev/vol/usrfs /usr ufs rw 2 2 > > ...etc... > > > > I didn't go the Linux route and do LABEL= because there is alot of > > black magic in the loader that reads /etc/fstab looking for the root > > partition and I didn't want to mess with fstab.h and friends. > > 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... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message