Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 22:19:10 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I dunno... is this a bug? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905172217510.509-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905170853010.56292-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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On Mon, 17 May 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > 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. Its sort of architecture independant but its guided by LABELSECTOR and LABELOFFSET. I'm sure you could improve it given an hour of hacking... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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