cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile

Doug Barton DougB at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 16 14:51:15 PDT 2003


On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> As for the naming of bsdlabel/disklabel.  I am all for a repo-copy
> disklabel->bsdlabel, with a compatibility symlink on alpha/i386/pc98.

I disagree strongly with this idea. If we need a bsdlabel, it should be a
link to disklabel with the right argc magic. Changing it doesn't buy us
anything except a vague sense of pedantic consistency, but it costs us a
lot of POLA. Disk management is hard enough already without changing the
names of things that people are already familiar with.

In fact, I agree with your point about disklabel (et al) growing -m <ARCH>
capability, and from a consistency standpoint things like sunlabel should
be links to the new, improved diskabel as well; if we decide that they are
necessary to keep around.

Doug

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