From owner-cvs-all Wed May 13 12:22:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26912 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 12:22:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26718; Wed, 13 May 1998 12:22:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA29596; Wed, 13 May 1998 12:14:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd029593; Wed May 13 19:14:01 1998 Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 12:13:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Bruce Evans cc: bde@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG, luoqi@watermarkgroup.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c src/sys/kern kern_shutdown.c In-Reply-To: <199805131855.EAA24203@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 May 1998, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> I don't want to use a disk label. I use a DOS partition (shared with > >> Linux) for swap and dumps. I had to label it to get it to work under > >> FreeBSD (except under SLICEd kernel which don't recognise labels on Linux > >> swap partitions). > > > >That's not really an acceptable kludge for production.. > > It's standard BSD. To use a disk, you have to label it. It's Linux's > problem if the label breaks operation under Linux :-). > > >the disklabel doesn't make sense in the contect of a linux partition. > > Labels make sense on all disks. Labels Only make sense on dedicated BSD owned parts of a disk > > >that's why it doesn't get looked for with SLICE. > >(It could be changed (one line change), but that would be rather unclean). > > This is required for backwards compatibility. The next changes will just abolish the test for a label, and replace it with a request to the device handler. should be transparent to even your setup.. (the disklabel in the linux part will just not be looked at) > > >Whether a disk subsection is swappable or dumpable needs to be > >independent of whether it is labled or not or whether it ends in the last > >letter 'b'. > > Yes, it should be decided by the user asking for it. I agree that that is an acceptable option. julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message