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

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 28 19:08:51 PST 2004


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.


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