Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:15:58 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/slice slice_base.c Message-ID: <19980615131558.32993@papillon.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199806150810.SAA32182@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 06:10:58PM %2B1000 References: <199806150810.SAA32182@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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(moved from cvs-* to -hackers) On Mon, 15 June 1998 at 18:10:58 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: >> No, disklabel depends on the 'old' slice ioctls, which are dead and >> gone. We're still stuck waiting on the new toolchain, although if > > No, disklabel depends on the very old label ioctls, which are standard. I have to agree on this one. Individual programs should make no assumptions about the location of a disk label. It could even be stored separately, so that reading the slice could never return the label. Does anybody have objections to the "old" ioctls? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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