re: CVS commit: src/sbin/newfs

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

   From the man page:
   
        In general, disklabel(8) serves no useful purpose on a vinum volume.  If
        you run it, it will show you three partitions, a, b and c, all the same
        except for the fstype, for example:
   
        3 partitions:
        #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
          a:     2048        0    4.2BSD     1024  8192     0   # (Cyl.    0 - 
0)
          b:     2048        0      swap                        # (Cyl.    0 - 
0)
          c:     2048        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 
0)
   
        vinum ignores the DIOCWDINFO and DIOCSDINFO ioctls, since there is noth-
        ing to change.  As a result, any attempt to modify the disk label will 
be
        silently ignored.

could this be changed to report an error rather than silently fail?
   
   > Maybe all its names should end in 'a'?
   
   Heh.  That's a workaround at the best.
   
   I think an improvement on the -F flag might be the way to go.  It
   appears to want to do the same thing, and the only issue is that it
   wants a size specification, which I think would normally not be
   necessary.

i think it would be best if newfs Just Worked with vinum devices.


.mrg.