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Re: Tell a real disklabel apart from a fictious one

To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Subject: Re: Tell a real disklabel apart from a fictious one
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 12:25:20 +1000

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:08:09PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
  | If I do ioctl(DIOCGDINFO) on a disk device, is there any better way to tell
  | this is a real label or one made up by the kernel besides 
  | 
  |     if (strcmp("default label", lab.d_packname)==0)

Have you compared it against the label returned by DIOCGDEFLABEL ?


cheers,
Luke.

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