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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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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
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