From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 07:58:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AEB316A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:58:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail4.speakeasy.net (mail4.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379AF43D46 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:58:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 11720 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2004 15:58:41 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 29 Jan 2004 15:58:41 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0TFwIM4069201; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:58:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: obrien@freebsd.org, Ruslan Ermilov Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:37:33 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401281929.i0SJTGIP043858@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040128205137.GG11253@FreeBSD.org.ua> <20040129030848.GA82376@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040129030848.GA82376@dragon.nuxi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401291037.33822.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: Scott Long cc: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel Makefile disklabel.5 disklabel.8 disklabel.c pathnames.h X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:58:53 -0000 On Wednesday 28 January 2004 10:08 pm, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:51:37PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:49:31PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Perhaps you didn't notice that, but the trimmed part of the patch > > > > also removes the compatibility link from disklabel to bsdlabel. > > > > > > > > The disklabel is not linked to sunlabel since 2003/04/23. > > > > > > Do not remove the compatibility link. > > > > No problem -- I can carry this change locally, though nobody tells > > me why would this be a good idea to preserve it. > > Because it gives us a single "name" to use to label disks on FreeBSD. > I'm glad you reminded me that it isn't linked on sparc64 -- it should > have been. Given that we use nested labelling systems on several of our archs (i386, amd64, ia64, probably ppc if we use apple labels) trying to use one magic name to mean several different things is not really scalable. We aren't running on a VAX, and we can stop pretending that we are now. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org