From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 11:49:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D201416A4BF; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:49:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9484643FEC; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:49:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7T0ebR9003929; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 02:40:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Wemm From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:54:45 PDT." <20030828185445.1A96C2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 02:40:37 +0200 Message-ID: <3928.1062117637@critter.freebsd.dk> cc: Wes Peters cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/bsdlabel bsdlabel.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:49:13 -0000 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.