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Date:      Mon, 09 Apr 2001 11:54:57 +1000
From:      Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org>, Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, gnb@itga.com.au
Subject:   Re: Disklabel 101? 
Message-ID:  <200104090154.LAA02651@lightning.itga.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 07 Apr 2001 04:48:43 -0500.

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> If memory serves, partition table information used to be in the kernel
> - wired into the driver for that disk - so all disks of the same type
> had to have the same partition table. 

This was true upto and including V7, but not true in 4.2.  I'm not sure
where in the seqence from V7 -> Sys32 -> 4.1 -> 4.2 that pack-resident
labels appeared.

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