cvs commit: src/sbin/sunlabel Makefile

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 09:04:52AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20030417223819.GA34467 at dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
> 
> >Wrong.  It is unclear what "supported" means here.  It worked in some
> >contexts, but not all.  Namely you could not boot a disklabeled disk.
> >disklabel worked fine for non bootable disks.
> 
> We are not in the business of inventing new meta-data formats for disk
> slicing.  Therefore we don't _want_ to support big-endian bsdlabels
> on Sun hardware, we want to use sunlabels.
> 
That's basically what I meant, David.  BSD labels in GEOM are always
little endian.


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