From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 24 11:15:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8C4037B41D for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:15:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2OJExp1064239 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 20:14:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Cross architecture disklabels... From: Poul-Henning Kamp Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 20:14:59 +0100 Message-ID: <64238.1016997299@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I belive GEOM will now correctly identify the following label formats on all platforms: MSDOS MBR MSDOS MBR extended partitions FreeBSD/i386 disklabel FreeBSD/alpha disklabel Solaris/disklabel This in practice means that one can move a disk from one architecture to another and get at the slices/partitions etc. This also means that I belive GEOM will DTRT for -current users for a long stretch of the road, and would therefore encourage more people to please test it out. -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message