From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 29 9:14:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0EDE37B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:14:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0B4F43E3B for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:14:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6TGESYx047489; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:14:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:14:03 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020729.101403.04191026.imp@bsdimp.com> To: alane@geeksrus.net Cc: jandrese@mitre.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are submissions to add drives to /etc/disktab welcome? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020729160720.GA749@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <20020728173044.GA14766@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <3D4564A4.86BEFA38@mitre.org> <20020729160720.GA749@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20020729160720.GA749@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Alan E writes: : Is there any point in writing a disklabel onto a drive that has no : disklabel, since the kernel can synthesize one for operational purposes? Yes. The drive can't report the FreeBSD partitions that are on it. Also, there's some minor tuning things that become slightly easier if you have a label on the drive. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message