Subject: Re: toolchain/30673: A single arch host disklabel isn't enough
To: None <dyoung@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/06/2005 21:21:02
The following reply was made to PR toolchain/30673; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: toolchain/30673: A single arch host disklabel isn't enough
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 22:26:46 +0100
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:35:01AM +0000, Simon Burge wrote:
> >Synopsis: single arch host disklabel isn't enough
> >Description:
> Currently there is only a single host disklabel command per
> architecture. The problem is that different machine types
> within an architecture may have different label sectors and
> offsets, so a single machine type disklabel isn't enought.
I'm currently rewriting part of disklabel and may well address these
issues. There are some gotchas lurking though.
David
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