bin/149424: fstab and labels with whitespace

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Tue Aug 17 13:27:48 UTC 2010


Walter C. Pelissero wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme writes:
 > > The problem with this patch is that it breaks backwards-
 > > compatibility.  Some people might already use backslashes
 > 
 > As far as I remember, the patch I proposed allowed a double backslash
 > ('\\') to mean a single backslash ('\').

Sure, but still everyone who uses backslashes will have to
change his /etc/fstab *in advance*, or otherwise his box
will not boot after the update.  Changing the syntax of
/etc/fstab is a very delicate issue.

Of course, it would be possible to change the syntax in a
backwards-compatible way.  But this would require more code
and would potentially introduce more complications.

 > > in /etc/fstab, for whatever reason.  This change would
 > > make them rather unhappy, I'm afraid.
 > 
 > Being unhappy for having to change a couple of entries in fstab is not
 > nearly as bad as not being able to insert an entry altogether.

As I wrote, there are several workarounds.

 > > One way to circumvent the problem would be to use glabel(8)
 > 
 > Yes, or mlabel(1).  Although reformatting (and, thus, relabelling) is
 > common on devices such as digital camera; it saves time compared to
 > deleting everything.

Well ...  I always format my camera's memory card under
FreeBSD after I have downloaded all images from it (which
requires connecting to the FreeBSD machine anyway).

I cannot format the card with the camera anyway because
that wouldn't work with my CHDK firmware.  :)

Best regards
   Oliver

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