On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Doug Barton wrote: > On 04/20/2011 16:01, Warren Block wrote: > >> Not sure I understand the question. I have a little article called >> FreeBSD Labeled Filesystems: >> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/labels.html > > That's a good article, but it highlights what seem to be some deficiencies in > the various implementations. For the most part they seem ufs-centric, > although glabel shows some promise for supporting ext2fs and msdosfs (both of > which are workhorse file systems for me). Multiple filesystems are supported, although the labels appear in different places. See 'man glabel | less -p tunefs'. If your MS-DOS or ext2fs filesystem is natively labeled, the system automatically creates those labels in the appropriate directories in /dev. > In your article you point out another thing that seems sub-optimal to > me, different locations for different types of things which are all > referred to as labels. It seemed spread out to me, too. But it hasn't been a problem, and I've come to think of it as namespaces.Received on Wed Apr 20 2011 - 23:13:51 UTC
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