hal truncating block.device on freebsd-8.0rc1

[J.R. Oldroyd]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:02:03 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 
> Hal doesn't support volumes with spaces in their names.  This is
> documented in the FreeBSD HAL FAQ at
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html .  Patches to add support
> for this are very welcome.
> 
> Joe
> 

That doc, and some googling which found two year old email from you,
show that this is apparently a long-standing problem with geom/glabel.

Any pointers on where the defective code might lie?

	-jr