Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:18:28 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), FreeBSD <freebsd@KIWI-Computer.com>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel Message-ID: <200011220118.SAA39048@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "21 Nov 2000 21:12:01 %2B0100." <xzpem05f5ke.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <xzpem05f5ke.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200011201458.IAA44992@KIWI-Computer.com> <xzpn1etf7st.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <14874.54687.892854.894715@nomad.yogotech.com>
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In message <xzpem05f5ke.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: : Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> writes: : > > Technically, you can use c as well, but that's playing with fire. : > I think 'c' is reserved to be the disk. If nothing else, it *must* : > start at the beginning of the disk. : : Historically, yes, but I don't think the kernel cares, though (parts : of) userland may care to a varying degree depending on exactly what : you are trying to do. I haven't actually checked this, though. The kernel does very much care. At least from my reading of sys/kern/subr_disk*.c. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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