In the last episode (Aug 01), Dmitry Marakasov said: > Recent `disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly' thread gave me a > thought - why do we have absolute offsets in disklabel? AFAIK, on > NetBSD and OpenBSD, label is not necessarily located `near' > filesystems stored in it's partitions - and even disklabel utility > shows absolute offsets (with 'c' covering entire device). FreeBSD, > however, seem to step far away from that standart - 8 partitions > instead of 16, label located in the beginning of a partition, > bsdlabel shows relative offsets. Now I wonder if there are any > reasons for offsets to be actually absolute? There are many weighty > arguments for relative offsets:
I asked this question a few years ago after having problems dd'ing a FreeBSD installation from one disk to another, and the answer was "it's always been that way" :) It shouldn't be too hard to have the code autodetect whether the offsets are relative or absolute by looking at what the 'c' partition's offset is. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"