Subject: Re: My changes to subr_disc_mbr (Was Re: default generated disklabels
To: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@netbsd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@cs.stevens.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/15/2005 02:59:56 
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
>> That is INCORRECT.  Why should a disk device driver CARE if there is
>> a label on the disk or not?  It only cares if there was an error
>> trying to probe for one.
>
> providing a default label with commonly used filingsystems on it?

Why would a disk device driver (which should only care for blocks, as far 
as I understand) be interested in a filesystem structure?


  - Hubert