cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 07:33:16AM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> 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.
> 
Then the only option we have is to call disklabel "bsdlabel".
We need it to be able to work with BSD labelled disks.  You
can take the BSD labelled disk on sparc64, bswapfs(8) it,
and mount.  I want all architectures understand each other.
I'm not against disklabel be -> to sunlabel on sparc64, and
-> to bsdlabel on platforms with native BSD labels, as I
already told.


Cheers,
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