Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 21:28:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com, mike@smith.net.au, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I dunno... is this a bug? Message-ID: <199905172128.OAA27052@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905170853010.56292-100000@semuta.feral.com> from "Matthew Jacob" at May 17, 99 08:54:02 am
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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. Because Julian's SLICE code is no longer there, and it was the function of that code to perform disk identifications, like the one you suggest? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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