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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
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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.