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Date:      Mon, 02 Apr 2001 11:34:03 -0800 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk create_chunk.c write_disk.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010402113403.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200104011137.f31BbW162870@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On 01-Apr-01 David E. O'Brien wrote:
> obrien      2001/04/01 04:37:31 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     lib/libdisk          create_chunk.c write_disk.c 
>   Log:
>   Try to untangle some of the #ifdef spaghetti.
>   Also, looking to the future, don't assume all the world is an i386 and all
>   its disk layout brain damage will be repeated by other platforms.  So all
>   the diking out if we are an Alpha, becomes adding in if we are an i386.

Actually, IA64 uses a MBR and slices, too.  I'd almost rather you use #ifdef
USE_SLICES or something like that and have each arch set appropriate defines to
describe its disk layout.

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