Re: Adding an ioctl to check for disklabel existence

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:15:02AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> however, disklabel fails at >2TiB for 512 byte sector, so i'm
> now thinking that fixing this doesn't really solve the problem
> for the future properly -- disklabel doesn't return a true
> label here anyway... so it seems that we should be retiring
> DIOCGDINFO usage as much as possible, rather than figuring out
> how to enhance it..

Thanks for all comments.

Overall I agree - let's leave it alone for now.
I have a slightly-evil-but-not-too-hackish idea what to do in sysinst
to avoid special casing it at all.

Martin