Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 02:40:37 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/bsdlabel bsdlabel.c Message-ID: <3928.1062117637@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:54:45 PDT." <20030828185445.1A96C2A7EA@canning.wemm.org>
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In message <20030828185445.1A96C2A7EA@canning.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes: >"Poul-Henning Kamp" wrote: >> In message <200308280815.12638.wes@softweyr.com>, Wes Peters writes: >> >> >If I understand this correctly, this is a nice little change. You're >> >trying to discourage people from just using the 'c' partition *as a >> >filesystem*, right? >> >> yes. > >I'd like to see this go further and have the magic 'c' partition go away. >eg: instead of using ad0c or ad0s1c, use ad0 or ad0s1 as the 'whole >partition'. Having ad0c and ad0 as pseudo aliases for each other is a >waste of a disklabel partition IMHO. I agree, but could you just sign on this form for me: I Peter Wemm, promises to resolve any and all backwards compatibility issues in software and wetware that might arise from removing the 'c' partitions magicness in BSDlabels: ____________________________ (sign P. Wemm) :-) The bogus offset is currently recorded in the offset of the c partition and changing the interpretation of that field will break some but not by definition all BSD labeled disks out there. If it the same to you, I would far rather work on discontinuing the BSDlabel format going forward, and concentrate on a format with fever restrictions of all sorts. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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