Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:27:07 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile Message-ID: <20040201052706.GA58321@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040201040510.GA74366@funkthat.com> References: <200401310739.i0V7djHb026220@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040131083222.GA46577@FreeBSD.org.ua> <20040201040510.GA74366@funkthat.com>
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On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:05:10PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > How about if we replaced disklabel w/ a simple script that described > why disklabel disappeared? Why not keep the link? It is good. > but at the same time, I've had people > ask the question: "Why can't my disklabel'd disk on my sparc64 box not > get seen/understood by my x86 box? I used the same program to label > them, yet the partitions aren't appearing on x86." You can't save idoits from themselves. > If we broke disklabel w/ an explination of what the "real" labels are > for each arch, I think that this would fix both the short term support > cost, and the long term understanding and adding of additional platforms > (for when ppc becomes tier-1)... You can't really see an Alpha disk, on an i386 box. And both of them use 'bsdlabel'. How do you propose to fix that? > comments? Leave the link as-is (or replace it with a smarter, advanced script that runs 'bsdlabel' and 'sunlabel' depending on arguments, host machine, target machine, etc..).
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