Subject: Re: disklabels
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.Stanford.EDU>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 08/10/1995 10:56:32
On Thu, 10 Aug 1995 10:45:51 -0700 (PDT)
wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu (Bill Studenmund) wrote:
> I had in mind a preceeding step where we look to see what OS was used,
> _then_ we look at the disklabel. Granted this wording is skewed towards
> ports where UNIX is not the native OS.
Ummm ... You have to know where to look for these signatures (if there
even _are_ any) too. So, it's really the same problem as looking for the
disklabel...
> > That's what my code did ... it gave preference to the port's `native'
> > disklabel format, and then jumped though function pointers looking though
> > the other formats until it didn't fail anymore. If none of them
> > succeeded, `no disk label' was reported and a fake label generated.
>
> So basically my suggestion is that something similar to your code
> gets worked into the kernel. :-)
Well, it'll have to be _written_ again. :-) I'm sure I mentioned that I
didn't have the code anymore ... it was ... less than pretty, and, like I
said, was thrown together in, like, a day as a proof of concept. It was
also an interesting excercise in discovering what sort of issues were
involved in such a thing ...
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