Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:51:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile Message-ID: <20030416144714.G37135@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> In-Reply-To: <45523.1050527162@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <45523.1050527162@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> As for the naming of bsdlabel/disklabel. I am all for a repo-copy
> disklabel->bsdlabel, with a compatibility symlink on alpha/i386/pc98.
I disagree strongly with this idea. If we need a bsdlabel, it should be a
link to disklabel with the right argc magic. Changing it doesn't buy us
anything except a vague sense of pedantic consistency, but it costs us a
lot of POLA. Disk management is hard enough already without changing the
names of things that people are already familiar with.
In fact, I agree with your point about disklabel (et al) growing -m <ARCH>
capability, and from a consistency standpoint things like sunlabel should
be links to the new, improved diskabel as well; if we decide that they are
necessary to keep around.
Doug
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