Subject: Re: Questions about features of NetBSD
To: matthew green <mrg@mame.mu.oz.au>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 04/11/1995 08:09:07
On Tue, 11 Apr 1995 15:45:05 +1000
matthew green <mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> right. i've written code for the sparc port to allow it to write
> sunos disklabels. i think it didn't work last i looked at it... :-)
> i'm fairly sure there isn't spare space on the sunosdisklabel,
> however...but i don't remember this being a problem..
I was looking at 128 bytes in...(the sl_xxx1 member of the
structure)...it's large enough to hold a BSD disklabel, but I need to
convince myself that there isn't anything important there already...
> netbsd/sparc can read netbsd disklabels of course. it's only for
> port's like the sparc port that are forced to use non-native labels
> that need the code to handle other formats. if this code was taken
> from the arch/ tree and put elsewhere for all to use...
I was thinking kern/subr_disklabel.c
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