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Re: Native BSD disklabel access



At 23:08 Uhr +0900 23.1.2012, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>hauke@ wrote:
>
>> mbr. So, not re-writing a BSD disklabel when it is not the platform's
>> native and preferred partition scheme seems safe to me.
>
>It looks current behavior of macppc/disksubr.c is result of
>random implementation without proper design,

Quite so. I felt a strong itch to rototill it, but the various use cases
will be test-intensive, so: not before netbsd-6.

>but if your patch
>won't add further mess (i.e. it's read only) it's okay for me.

I didn't touch any label-writing code.

Thanks for your input,

        hauke

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