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Re: mounting by wedge name
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:55:57PM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> I've been working on various things lately to improve the state of
> wedges and wedge-related things - one of the (valid) complaints is that
> there is no way to 'nail down' wedge configuration currently. With the
> attached patch, however, one can specify the wedge's *name* to mount
> from. With the current DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER options, the name is set
> according to the underlying disk-labelling method:
>
> DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT: copied from the user-supplied label if it exists,
> the partition GUID if not
> DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL: set to the BSD disklabel partition name (e.g.
> "wd0a", "sd1g")
> DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR: set to a bsd-style partition name beginning with the
> 'e' partition - up to 4 per disk (e.g., "wd0e" through "wd0h")
Guess I need to write DKWEDGE_METHOD_RDB (for Amiga) finally; Amiga
partitions are named, too.
-is
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