cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile

Jake Burkholder jake at locore.ca
Thu Apr 17 04:31:49 PDT 2003


Apparently, On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:55:06PM +0300,
	Ruslan Ermilov said words to the effect of;

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 08:50:03AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 03:51:20PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > > I agree about disklabel being called bsdlabel, but I may be less
> > > convinced about doing symlinks unless to tools have at least
> > > remotely similar userinterface.
> > 
> > I've used both disk^H^H^Hbsdlabel and sunlabel.  Their interfaces are
> > close enough that one can handle the 'disklabel' link to them.  My hands
> > (and I'm sure many) are trained to type "disklabel" and I'd really like
> > to see jakes suggestion become reality.
> > 
> disklabel will soon be enabled on sparc64 too, once
> the endianness fixes are committed.  This is needed
> to cross-release architectures that use BSD labels,
> that is i386 and Alpha.

I do not want the existing disklabel to be installed as disklabel on
sparc64.  It can't be used to create disks that are bootable by the
firmware so I think it would be astonishing to call it disklabel.
I think it would be less astonishing to link sunlabel to disklabel
since the interfaces are similar and that what people expect to use
to initialize disks.

Please do not re-enable disklabel on sparc64 unless you call it something
else.  I'm saying this with my port master hat on.

Jake


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