cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel Makefile disklabel.5 disklabel.8 disklabel.c pathnames.h

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 10:08 pm, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:51:37PM +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:49:31PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > > Perhaps you didn't notice that, but the trimmed part of the patch
> > > > also removes the compatibility link from disklabel to bsdlabel.
> > > >
> > > > The disklabel is not linked to sunlabel since 2003/04/23.
> > >
> > > Do not remove the compatibility link.
> >
> > No problem -- I can carry this change locally, though nobody tells
> > me why would this be a good idea to preserve it.
>
> Because it gives us a single "name" to use to label disks on FreeBSD.
> I'm glad you reminded me that it isn't linked on sparc64 -- it should
> have been.

Given that we use nested labelling systems on several of our archs (i386, 
amd64, ia64, probably ppc if we use apple labels) trying to use one magic 
name to mean several different things is not really scalable.  We aren't 
running on a VAX, and we can stop pretending that we are now.

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