HEADS UP: device name checking on device registration

Matthew Jacob mj at feral.com
Tue Oct 12 13:36:45 UTC 2010


  Good workaround, still a nasty surprising bug.

> On 2010-10-11, barbara wrote:
>> The panic is caused by:
>> g_dev_taste(): make_dev_p() failed (gp->name=ext2fs//, error=22)
>> as I have a linux partition (I swear, it's for my mom!) on the same machine.
>> As I don't care about that partition (being ext4 I can't even mount
>> it), is there any solution other then applying the patch after every
>> csup?
> If you don't need ext2fs labels you can put the following line to
> /boot/loader.conf as a workaround:
>
> kern.geom.label.ext2fs.enable=0
>



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