On Jul 25, 10:50pm, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> Subject: Re: Item of future thought: disklabels
>
>     Hi Todd,
>
> you wrote in <Pine.NEB.3.95.960725123021.27287R-100000@like.duh.ml.org>:
> > As an idea for the future (towards that platform independence), how's about
> > support for all types of disk labels on all platforms?  Such as the ability
> > to, say, take a MS-DOG format drive, replete with FDISK style label, and
> > using it on a HP300.  Or pulling out an Amiga RDB format drive and using it
> > on a MIPS station.  (Given that binary transportation isn't necessary in
> > these examples. :)
>
> Yes, good idea. I had the same thing on my mind already. I would suggest
> something like a generic alien disklabel reader which automatically marks
> these disklabels as read only. And I would be willing to add the Amiga RDB
> support to such a beast.
>
> The only problem is that you can't share NetBSD FFS partitions between
> ports with different byte order. :-(

Currently the disklabel is dependant on the structure alignment too :-(

Cheers

Rob Black

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