geom, glabel, and related terminology

2010-04-27 Thread Eitan Adler
I'm a little bit confused about some of the file system terminology. What exactly is a GEOM label? What does it mean to have one or for one to be stopped? What is a GEOM provider? What is the difference between a bsd label and a geom label? If you could provide a high level overview the

Re: geom, glabel, and related terminology

2010-04-27 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a little bit confused about some of the file system terminology. What exactly is a GEOM label?  What does it mean to have one or for one to be stopped? What is a GEOM provider? What is the difference between a

Re: geom, glabel, and related terminology

2010-04-27 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Tuesday 27 April 2010 13:49:02 Eitan Adler wrote: I'm a little bit confused about some of the file system terminology. What exactly is a GEOM label? A geom label is a name (hence label) for a GEOM provider. This label is interpreted/read by glabel(8). The source of the label can be the