Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:25:28 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly Message-ID: <20060727202528.GA14954@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> In-Reply-To: <20060727122159.GB4217@britannica.bec.de> References: <20060727063936.GA1246@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20060727122159.GB4217@britannica.bec.de>
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote: > > Later I wanted to mount the dfly filesystems on FreeBSD 6.1, > > of course still my main Unix ;-) But it wasn't possible. > > DragonFly disklabels allow 16 entries by default, FreeBSD still limits > it to 8. That's why you can't read it directly. > Hmm, for the sake of compatibility, wouldn't it have been an option, to add this extra bit to the end of the struct ? Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm - Powered by FreeBSD 6 Need a magic printfilter today ? -> http://www.apsfilter.org/
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