geom_label verbosity patch

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 23 12:00:29 UTC 2009


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:52:01PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to ask for a community review of these patches:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/diffs/geom_label_errlevel.txt
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/diffs/glabel.8_errlevel.txt
> 
> The intent is to make glabel less chatty on detection of new providers,
> etc. [...]

This is on purpose, so don't change that. One can always set it to -1.
Instead, we should implement possibility to turn on/off selected labels.
For example things like ufsid should be turned off by default.
This way we not only make it less chatty again, but also not to pollute
/dev/.

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