Subject: Re: My changes to subr_disc_mbr (Was Re: default generated disklabels get overwritten?)
To: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@cs.stevens.edu>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/15/2005 13:28:33
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:20:26AM +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> Normally nothing i agree! but they do have to deal with disklabel stuff i=
n=20
> the current design. And as such if no disklabel is recorded create a=20
> `dummy' disklabel. If creating a disklabel why not make use of knowledge?=
=20

All these sorts of things seem to me to fit better in tools we have
now like mbrlabel(8), mscdlabel(8) and sunlabel(8) - and ultimately
via wedges and the equivalent tools there.

> Say the acorn diskdriver trying to create `filecore' entries for floppies=
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> since it knows its most likely to have them next to msdosfs ?

Especially if it involves guessing.

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Dan.
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