Re: In-kernel units for block numbers, etc ...

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 10:52:18AM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
 > mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst) writes:
 > >The bizarre disklabel seems to be another problem.
 > 
 > vnd.c says:
 >                /*
 >                  * For historical reasons, if there's no disklabel
 >                  * present, all partitions must be FS_BSDFFS and
 >                  * occupy the entire disk.
 >                  */                 
 > 
 > Works as designed.

I'm not convinced that means it isn't a problem :-)

(do we have any idea what the historical reasons are?)

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David A. Holland
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