From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 2 14:43:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA00911 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 14:43:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA00906 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 14:43:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA01848; Sat, 2 Nov 1996 15:35:48 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199611022235.PAA01848@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Blargh - BSDI disk labels To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 15:35:48 -0700 (MST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, karl@Mcs.Net In-Reply-To: from "Warner Losh" at Nov 2, 96 12:56:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > : Do they perchance already use 16 partitions instead of 8? > > Speaking of which, does anybody here know of any changes to the > NetBSD/OpenBSD base that would preclude FreeBSD from being able to > mount those disks? I know of the disk label problem (in OpenBSD at > least), which should be relatively easy to fix, but are there others? I think the disklabel is it (I have JAZ disks with Net and Open on them). The cannonical fix,IMO, is to change the disk devices into a hierarchy of devices. I've discused this before. Each partitioning schema would descend one layer. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.