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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:33:33 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c disk.c libdisk.h rules.c
Message-ID:  <20021030123333.B79541@kayak.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021030212954.G5692-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <5861.1035956621@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021030212954.G5692-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:54:33PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> > >Second, they are used to determine the location of alternate superblocks
> > >if reading the main superblock fails and fsck_ffs is not invoked with
> > >-p or -b.  Not finding a label is fatal in this case.  This case was
> > >broken from 1995 to 1998 by axing newfs's support for it.
> >
> > This is just too bad.  If there is no BSD label there is no BSD label.
> > Other label formats may be able to hold the same information, or they
> > may not.
> 
> This problem is easily avoided by not using the other label formats.

Avoid and you will be avoided :-)

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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