From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 18 00:04:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E19037B401; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 00:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (port757.uc1-esp.isdn-lan.cybercity.dk [212.242.98.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD7243F85; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 00:04:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h3I74qNY028771; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:04:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: obrien@FreeBSD.org From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:38:19 PDT." <20030417223819.GA34467@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:04:52 +0200 Message-ID: <28770.1050649492@critter.freebsd.dk> 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-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 07:04:57 -0000 In message <20030417223819.GA34467@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: >Wrong. It is unclear what "supported" means here. It worked in some >contexts, but not all. Namely you could not boot a disklabeled disk. >disklabel worked fine for non bootable disks. We are not in the business of inventing new meta-data formats for disk slicing. Therefore we don't _want_ to support big-endian bsdlabels on Sun hardware, we want to use sunlabels. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.