Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:49:02 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/slice slice_base.c Message-ID: <199806170449.VAA00856@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:15:58 CDT." <19980615131558.32993@papillon.lemis.com>
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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? Hmm. I'd have to say that the major problem is that the disklabel ioctls only deal with disklabels. These were extended later when the slice stuff came in, but the "new paradigm" would make this a little amusing (you could slice a partition which was part of a slice... ad infinitum). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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