From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 31 21:27:11 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 24DF916A4CE; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:27:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3C6343D1F; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:27:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i115R7A0058427; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:27:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i115R7r4058426; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:27:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:27:07 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: John-Mark Gurney Message-ID: <20040201052706.GA58321@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200401310739.i0V7djHb026220@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040131083222.GA46577@FreeBSD.org.ua> <20040201040510.GA74366@funkthat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040201040510.GA74366@funkthat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: Ruslan Ermilov cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 05:27:11 -0000 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..).