Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:38:19 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile Message-ID: <20030417223819.GA34467@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030417062710.GC61799@sunbay.com> References: <20030416114542.GC16563@locore.ca> <79915.1050501080@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030416155003.GA48632@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030416205506.GB10181@sunbay.com> <20030417021516.GA8425@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030417062710.GC61799@sunbay.com>
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 09:27:10AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 07:15:16PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:55:06PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > 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 > > > > We actually already had disklabe on sparc64 -- I used it to create ccd's. > > It was only recently it was disconnected from the sparc64 build. > > > I know. It was disconnected because it didn't support sparc64. Wrong. It is unclear what "supported" means here. It worked in some contexts, but not all. Namely you could not boot a disklabeled disk. disklabel worked fine for non bootable disks.
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