From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 31 10: 1:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABCB637B479 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:01:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id e9VI1if19601; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:01:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:01:44 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200010311801.e9VI1if19601@earth.backplane.com> To: Warner Losh Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Like to commit my diskprep References: <200010311747.KAA80353@harmony.village.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :I did this a as a perl script because disklabel and fdisk were hard to :use together and Bruce strongly objected to my changing disklabel. He :didn't want to mix the various layers of disk labeling into disklabel :itself. : :Before anyone asks, the biggest difference between my diskprep and :Matt's recent changes are that diskprep doesn't introduce a new api :into the kernel and doesn't pollute disklabel with functions it :traditionally hasn't done. Matt's changes put functionality into :edisklabel and the kernel. : :Warner I would welcome diskrep as a port, but it makes absolutely no sense to commit it to the main tree as a /usr/bin program when the functionality should properly be placed in the disklabel program. Why abandon disklabel when that's the program everyone already knows how to use, and when fixing it is so fraggin easy? -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message