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Re: DISKLABEL_EI option for system with MBR



On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 09:27:16AM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> On 12 February 2017 at 11:57, Rin Okuyama <rokuyama%rk.phys.keio.ac.jp@localhost> wrote:
> > Michael, Martin, thank you for letting me know about wedge(4).
> > It is exactly what I need! It is more portable than my patch.
> > I withdraw the patch and the PR.
> 
> I think that DISKLABEL_EI would still be a good idea - as it would
> make other endian disklabels Just Work for people (including easy
> fstab usage)

I agree. It's not 100% compatible, but useful enough to allow some
confusion.


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