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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:04:52 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile 
Message-ID:  <28770.1050649492@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:38:19 PDT." <20030417223819.GA34467@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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In message <20030417223819.GA34467@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:

>Wrong.  It is unclear what "supported" means here.  It worked in some
>contexts, but not all.  Namely you could not boot a disklabeled disk.
>disklabel worked fine for non bootable disks.

We are not in the business of inventing new meta-data formats for disk
slicing.  Therefore we don't _want_ to support big-endian bsdlabels
on Sun hardware, we want to use sunlabels.

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