Re: turning off COMPAT_386BSD_MBRPART in disklabel

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost said:
> PR 44496 notes that COMPAT_386BSD_MBRPART is still enabled in
> disklabel(8), even though it was turned off by default in the kernel
> early in 4.99.x. The PR also notes that it's not harmless to leave it
> on.

The PR rather leads to the conclusion that the support for
old Partition IDs in disklabel(8) is suboptimal.
Originally, the code did only consider a partition with the
old ID if no new one was found. This apparently got broken
when extended partition support was added years later.

best regards
Matthias



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