From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 30 12:33:52 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E7437B401; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:33:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72DAA43E6E; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:33:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9UKXY0N079642; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:33:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9UKXXGa079641; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:33:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:33:33 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Bruce Evans Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , 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> References: <5861.1035956621@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021030212954.G5692-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021030212954.G5692-100000@gamplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message