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Date:      Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:18:28 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), FreeBSD <freebsd@KIWI-Computer.com>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Removal of Disklabel 
Message-ID:  <200011220118.SAA39048@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "21 Nov 2000 21:12:01 %2B0100." <xzpem05f5ke.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 
References:  <xzpem05f5ke.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>  <200011201458.IAA44992@KIWI-Computer.com> <xzpn1etf7st.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <14874.54687.892854.894715@nomad.yogotech.com> 

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In message <xzpem05f5ke.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> 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


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