Re: Adding an ioctl to check for disklabel existence

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

On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 09:51:40AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> NetBSD is, of course, free to do what it likes. My semi-outsider's view
> suggests, though, that the FreeBSD experience is relevant and timely.

So this discussion wandered off topic a bit. Of course NetBSD already
supports gpt and there is no plan to change (legacy) disklabels.

Actually the whole original issue was triggered by my changes to the
installer being too strict with disklabels on legacy devices on certain
machines, where it now would reject a native disk and instead ask for
the prefered partitioning scheme - which is not a good idea when performing
an update.

I have a good solution for that in userland now w/o any kernel support 
required.

Martin