From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 21 17:18:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E79B337B4C5 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:18:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAM1ITQ33221; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:18:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA39048; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:18:28 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011220118.SAA39048@harmony.village.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), FreeBSD , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "21 Nov 2000 21:12:01 +0100." References: <200011201458.IAA44992@KIWI-Computer.com> <14874.54687.892854.894715@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:18:28 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: : Nate Williams writes: : > > Technically, you can use c as well, but that's playing with fire. : > I think 'c' is reserved to be the disk. If nothing else, it *must* : > start at the beginning of the disk. : : Historically, yes, but I don't think the kernel cares, though (parts : of) userland may care to a varying degree depending on exactly what : you are trying to do. I haven't actually checked this, though. The kernel does very much care. At least from my reading of sys/kern/subr_disk*.c. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message