Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:04:52 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile Message-ID: <28770.1050649492@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:38:19 PDT." <20030417223819.GA34467@dragon.nuxi.com>
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In message <20030417223819.GA34467@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes: >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. We are not in the business of inventing new meta-data formats for disk slicing. Therefore we don't _want_ to support big-endian bsdlabels on Sun hardware, we want to use sunlabels. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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