Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:04:24 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> Cc: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile Message-ID: <4939.1050581064@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Apr 2003 07:33:16 EDT." <20030417113315.GG16563@locore.ca>
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In message <20030417113315.GG16563@locore.ca>, Jake Burkholder writes: >Please do not re-enable disklabel on sparc64 unless you call it something >else. I'm saying this with my port master hat on. I agree with Jake. And putting on whatever flimsy hat I have with a rusty old badge reading "generally mucking about in the area of disks": 1. We repocopy disklabel(8) to bsdlabel(8) and install it under that name on all architectures. 2. We install a symlink from disklabel to bsdlabel on the following architectures throughout the 5.x branch's lifetime. i386 pc98 alpha 3. On all other platforms, and at all other times, we install a small shell script which prints some helpful information relevant to the platform it is run on. 4. Should we some day get a unified disk-partitioning tool, whoever writes it gets to choose the name they want it to bear, including "disklabel" should it be worthy of such a general name. For those of you reading this in your editor, busy composing a fuming rebuke before you read my entire email: Please keep in mind that the bsdlabel format has significant size constraints and that we in all likelyhood will see the i386 platform migrate to the GPT format from early 6.x, and that we may get pushed by our favourite monopolies to do so in middle of the 5-stable branch because new PC's may only work with GPT. Poul-Henning -- 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.
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