Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 08:54:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I dunno... is this a bug? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905170853010.56292-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905171002420.509-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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> I'm not sure why this worked before. The problem is that alpha puts the > label at offset 64 (dictated by OSF1 and NetBSD) and i386 puts it at > offset 512. We could update readdisklabel to look in both places I > suppose. I don't know why it did but it sure did! Why isn't readdisklabel a architecture independent function? One of the *huge* wins for Linux is it's ability to cope with multiple disk label formats. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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