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To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis 
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:22:01 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <200210251307.g9PD7al6069458@dotar.thuvia.org>, Mark Valentine write
s:
>I guess we differ here in that I'm saying we *should* hide this implementation
>detail by default for consistency with other platforms, 

You're making quite an assumption here it seems: BSD disklabels may not
even be present on all platforms, and each partitioning scheme is free
to choose its own naming.

GPT labels for instance seems to use "${disk}${unit}[sp]%d"

And finally you overlook that we may have to forego both MBR and BSD
disklabels on any architecture where we want to use moderately large
storage devices (2^31 * 512 bytes, possibly twice that).

There simply isn't "any consistency with other platforms" to point to
here, if we disregard stuff from the antique hardware society.

Now, this is a nice technicolor bikeshed we got here, but can we
get on with something of real importance, like, making a FreeBSD
5.0-RELEASE ?

Thankyou!

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