From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 24 10:10:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA17973 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA17939 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:09:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA01511; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:06:53 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704241706.KAA01511@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? To: syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:06:53 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au In-Reply-To: <199704240850.SAA21238@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au> from "Stephen McKay" at Apr 24, 97 06:50:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Yep, 'd' is dead (and not missed). 'c' is a bit of a left-over since the > slice code went in, but it's Traditional. Lots of code knows this. :-) > Though, with a bit of effort we could get rid of its special purpose. Er... If you can point us at this "lots of code", then we can use it instead of rewriting "disklabel", since the only serious use something like that would have is as a replacement for disklabel. I really don't believe there's "lots of code" that knows about 'c'. Or if there is, it's old, so it also knows about 'd', right? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.