Subject: Re: My changes to subr_disc_mbr (Was Re: default generated disklabels get overwritten?)
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/15/2005 01:03:18
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 03:55:32PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> >This makes it impossible for its callers (disc device drivers) to  
> >determine
> >if there was indeed a disklabel on disc or not or that it needs to  
> >create a
> >default label for the disc. The basic change i made was:
> 
> That is INCORRECT.  Why should a disk device driver CARE if there is  
> a label on the disk or not?  It only cares if there was an error  
> trying to probe for one.

providing a default label with commonly used filingsystems on it?

Reinoud


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