disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

[Andreas Klemm]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> > Later I wanted to mount the dfly filesystems on FreeBSD 6.1,
> > of course still my main Unix ;-) But it wasn't possible.
> 
> DragonFly disklabels allow 16 entries by default, FreeBSD still limits
> it to 8. That's why you can't read it directly.
> 

Hmm, for the sake of compatibility, wouldn't it have been an option,
to add this extra bit to the end of the struct ?

	Andreas ///

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