On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Daniel Carosone wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:57:38AM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> > Bill's proposal (or a number of other options) allow one type of
> > label to update the other each boot (even if the latter is now only
> > in-core). Sounds good to me.
> >
> > > For MBR-using ports, mbrlabel(8) is useful to find the partitions.
> >
> > Hot damn!  I wish I'd known about that a few weeks ago. Neat.
>
> This reminds me.  It would be a very nice feature (whatever the
> disklabelling scheme) to be able to update *only* the in-core label.

I think that part of the dispart and the wedges proposals is that the
kernel would get out of writing disklabels; only userland tools would do
it. Writing disklabels is too much of a mess. :-)

Take care,

Bill