Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:15:52 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Warning messages emitted by disklabel -r Message-ID: <20021118211552.GA3911@tiiu.internal> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211181238341.74299-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <20021118195627.GA3309@tiiu.internal> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211181238341.74299-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:00:37PM -0800, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: [snip] > In pre-geom days we had a "realhack" (TM) that would fiddle the > label if you read it direct from the disk. In other words > it "fixed" it to always look (ummmm relative I think) even if you > read it from the raw disk, even if it was in absolute form on the disk. > > Geom (quite correctly) declared this to be a "gross hack" that it would > not perpetuate. As a result, when you read the raw label you see the > "uncorrected version". It's possible that disklabel itself > should be extended to figure out if the label is absolute of relative > and DTRT. Ok, seems not to be over my head. It's confusing to users, that's the only thing I have to say now. Thank you for explanation.0 -- Vallo Kallaste kalts@estpak.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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