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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:15:58 -0500
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/slice slice_base.c
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On Mon, 15 June 1998 at 18:10:58 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>> No, disklabel depends on the 'old' slice ioctls, which are dead and
>> gone.  We're still stuck waiting on the new toolchain, although if
>
> No, disklabel depends on the very old label ioctls, which are standard.

I have to agree on this one.  Individual programs should make no
assumptions about the location of a disk label.  It could even be
stored separately, so that reading the slice could never return the
label.  Does anybody have objections to the "old" ioctls?

Greg
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