Subject: Re: change hp700 disklabel location
To: ITOH Yasufumi <itohy@netbsd.org>
From: Klaus Klein <kleink@reziprozitaet.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/18/2003 18:54:41
On Saturday 18 October 2003 18:18, ITOH Yasufumi wrote:

> On hp700, the disklabel is at LABELSECTOR=0, LABELOFFSET=64.
> However, the LIF header (struct lifvol in <hp700/disklabel.h>)
> uses the top 256bytes of a boot device,
> which conflicts with the disklabel location.
>
> HP-UX doen't seem to have disklabel (LVM only -- I looked at HP-UX
> 10.20), and I think picking any value is okay....
>
> I chose the location LABELSECTOR=1, LABELOFFSET=0,
> which is used on many archs.
> Do you think it okay to commit this change?

FWIW, this also matches Mach's location.


- Klaus