Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 07:33:16 -0400 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile Message-ID: <20030417113315.GG16563@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030416205506.GB10181@sunbay.com> References: <20030416114542.GC16563@locore.ca> <79915.1050501080@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030416155003.GA48632@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030416205506.GB10181@sunbay.com>
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Apparently, On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:55:06PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of; > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 08:50:03AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 03:51:20PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > I agree about disklabel being called bsdlabel, but I may be less > > > convinced about doing symlinks unless to tools have at least > > > remotely similar userinterface. > > > > I've used both disk^H^H^Hbsdlabel and sunlabel. Their interfaces are > > close enough that one can handle the 'disklabel' link to them. My hands > > (and I'm sure many) are trained to type "disklabel" and I'd really like > > to see jakes suggestion become reality. > > > disklabel will soon be enabled on sparc64 too, once > the endianness fixes are committed. This is needed > to cross-release architectures that use BSD labels, > that is i386 and Alpha. I do not want the existing disklabel to be installed as disklabel on sparc64. It can't be used to create disks that are bootable by the firmware so I think it would be astonishing to call it disklabel. I think it would be less astonishing to link sunlabel to disklabel since the interfaces are similar and that what people expect to use to initialize disks. Please do not re-enable disklabel on sparc64 unless you call it something else. I'm saying this with my port master hat on. Jake
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