On Tue, 24 May 1994 21:53:22 -0700 
 (This is my bacque pas, this is my faux pas) <greywolf@autodesk.com> wrote:

 > Could the NetBSD label perhaps be put at a different offset than the SunOS
 > label, and the SunOS label be translated concurrently?  Something to make
 > the DKIOSLABEL stuff work so that things like "newfs" and "disklabel"
 > work...

I can only speak from experience, as I have not taken the time to compare 
the SunOS disklabel code and the NetBSD/sparc disklabel code...But, I 
partitioned my two NetBSD drives with SunOS format(8) and NetBSD talked 
to the drives just fine!

 > 
 > Just a thought.
 > 
 > 
 > --
 > Make a hacker happy.  Use a *real* OS.
 > 
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 > Just because memory, disk and cpu speed are cheap is no excuse for
 > shoddy programming.

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Jason R. Thorpe                thorpej@cs.orst.edu                   737-9533
OSU CS Support                    CSWest Room 12                     737-5567
      'These are my opinions and not necessarily those of anyone else.'
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