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Date:      Thu, 09 May 2002 22:49:52 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys sun_disklabel.h 
Message-ID:  <32502.1020977392@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 May 2002 13:22:59 PDT." <200205092022.g49KMxZ94992@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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Why didn't you just enable GEOM ?

Poul-Henning

In message <200205092022.g49KMxZ94992@freefall.freebsd.org>, "David E. O'Brien"
 writes:
>obrien      2002/05/09 13:22:59 PDT
>
>  Added files:
>    sys/sys              sun_disklabel.h 
>  Log:
>  Add a hack (ported from NetBSD) to support Sun disk labels.
>  This code works by converting the Sun label to a struct disklabel, which
>  is probably even the right thing for reading a label. The original
>  checksum is taken over, so that the label source can be distinguished.
>  
>  The NetBSD code to wrap a BSD-style disklabel into the Sun disklabel has been
>  deleted for now - don't know whether that is really desirable, after all Sun
>  disklabels could just be used always (BSD disklabels are going to have
>  problems with PROM compatability).  The dsinit() call in diskopen() has been
>  #ifdef'ed out for now, this will be changed to use the minimal slice struct
>  in case of dsinit() failure.
>  
>  Submitted by:   tmm
>  Obtained from:  NetBSD
>  
>  Revision  Changes    Path
>  1.1       +101 -0    src/sys/sys/sun_disklabel.h (new)
>

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