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Date:      Wed, 7 May 2003 20:36:49 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: docs/51897: Add example for disklable for md devices
Message-ID:  <20030507183649.GA532@nosferatu.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030507085847.GA394@nitro.dk>
References:  <200305070010.h470A6gY099125@freefall.freebsd.org> <20030507093401.A97412@abigail.blackend.org> <20030507085847.GA394@nitro.dk>

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On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:58:48AM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > We shoould be consistent with other docs (Handbook etc..) i.e.
> > disklabel -r -w md0 auto
>=20
> Actually it was on purpose that I changed that.  As I understand it '-r'
> and 'auto' are not needed anymore post GEOM.  The examples in
> bsdlabel(8) does not use auto and this is the code handling '-r' :
>

Well I did not think about the brand new disklabel :(

> 	case 'r':
> 		/*
> 		 * We accept and ignode -r for compatibility with
> 		 * historically disklabel usage.
> 		 */
> 		break;
>=20
> I would rather say that the rest of the docs should be change not to use
> '-r' and 'auto' and perhaps add a compatibility note for FreeBSD < 5.0.
>=20

You meant 5.1 I think.
In the Handbook I would write that -r and auto options can be safely
omitted on FreeBSD 5.1 and later.

Marc

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