Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:46:01 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile Message-ID: <20030418074601.GB50542@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <28770.1050649492@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20030417223819.GA34467@dragon.nuxi.com> <28770.1050649492@critter.freebsd.dk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 09:04:52AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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. > That's basically what I meant, David. BSD labels in GEOM are always little endian. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+n605Ukv4P6juNwoRArp+AJ0T/uVVPt5/z1EMw/YskJhpQdW82ACeOx3T wJwBVb35A1c6i/MMbpZo8KI= =kHQY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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