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Date:      Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:04:33 +0600
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CFR: Volume labels in FFS
Message-ID:  <20030125120433.GA24687@regency.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <3E31C4F5.972AA69C@mindspring.com>
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>

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On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:57:57PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> > > No, it actually creates device nodes in /dev/vol/<volname>, 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=<foo> 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...

I second Terry here; seeing little-to-none sense in volume lables as
they are.

./danfe


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