svn commit: r219400 - head/sys/geom/label

Maxim Sobolev sobomax at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 9 08:10:38 UTC 2011


On 3/8/2011 9:36 AM, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>>    Some linux distros put mount point into the ext2fs labels, such as '/', or
>> >     '/boot', which confuses the devfs code and can cause userland programs to
>> >     fail reading /dev/ext2fs directory with weird error code, such as any
>> >     program that uses pwlib.
> Do you still see such behavior after r214063?
>
>> >     Strip any leading slashes before feeding the label to the geom_label code.
> make_dev*() should strip redundant slashes since r213526.

I have only observed this issue with 7.4. It looks like r213526 might 
work as well, but unfortunately this revision is not directly applicable 
to the 7-STABLE. Do you have any plans to MFC it into 7.x?

-Maxim


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