Subject: Re: cac/ld problems
To: Chris Ross <cross+netbsd@distal.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/22/2004 09:44:45
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Chris Ross wrote:
> Perhaps my complaint should be that disklabel doesn't warn
> you about this. It didn't care at all. Of course, IMHO, it
> shouldn't care, and should let you do whatever, which gets
> back to my belief that it's a bug that something is treating
> 'd' as if it's the whole disk (as most NetBSD people would
> expect), even when it's not (according to the disklabel, which
> should be the primary information source). (*shrug*)
I think there is some merit in disklabel(8) warning about 'd'
being inside 'c' on appropriate ports. I cannot offhand think
of a reason why that would make sense... (I'm sure someone will
want to do it at some point, hence the warning and not a fatal
error :)
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