Help me understand glabel

Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.current at mailing.thruhere.net
Wed Apr 29 06:05:08 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 28 April 2009 21:17:07 Ivan Voras wrote:
> Diego Depaoli wrote:
> > Now glabel list shows each entry twice under /dev/label and under
> > /dev/ufsid so hal is a bit confused.
> > It is normal or I were wrong?
>
> Your problem is that hal cannot figure out that two labels point to the
> same device? So how was it dealing with it before, when you had the
> device/partition itself (i.e. /dev/ad0s1a) and its specific volume label?

Hal will propagate both and you'll get two notifications from whatever mount 
app you're using. My workaround is to ignore the "filesystem based labels" 
(/dev/ufs/*) in an fdi.
-- 
Mel


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