geom_label verbosity patch

[Ivan Voras]

Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> 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.

Possible, but it would make it unique among other GEOM classes.

> Instead, we should implement possibility to turn on/off selected labels.
> For example things like ufsid should be turned off by default.

Anyone else agrees with this?

> This way we not only make it less chatty again, but also not to pollute
> /dev/.

One way to lessen it is to stop creating individual directories for each
label class, as discussed before.

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