Subject: Re: disklabel(8) and machdep on-disk structures issues
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/09/2003 19:37:53
At 1:49 Uhr +0900 10.11.2003, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>In article <l03102800bbd4175d6bdf@172.16.7.4>
>hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE wrote:
>
>> >May I humbly ask you to note that on some ports (at least amiga, amigappc
>> >but ISTR that atari? is similar) we don't use any NetBSD disklabel?
>>
>> Add mac68k and macppc here.
>
>No, macppc could have NetBSD disklabel.
>(wd0 on my old macppc doesn't have Apple partition map.)

Sure, but you definitely do not want to blow away an Apple partition map
and replace it with a NetBSD disklabel, even if the disklabel gets the
partitions right.
	hauke

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