On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 02:48 +0200, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: > >> 1. NetBSD's 'c' partition describes NetBSD slice (always?). > >> 2. NetBSD's 'd' partition describes the whole HDD (always?). Just to clear up matters, I wasn't saying your patch did anything wrong, I only sought to provide counterexamples to the above two points you raised (as you'd suffixed them with question marks). In other words, I just wanted to show a concrete example of a valid NetBSD disklabel where the "d" partition did not cover the whole HDD, and that there isn't always the notion of a "slice" in all NetBSD architectures. I don't know if the "d" partition not covering the entire HDD affects the logic of your patch, or whether it is only the "c" partition that is important. (Hopefully, it is the latter.) BTW, kudos for working on this. I agree that it would be nice to make NetBSD partitions more amenable to use under FreeBSD. Cheers, Paul. -- e-mail: paul_at_gromit.dlib.vt.edu "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --- Frank Vincent ZappaReceived on Sat Mar 18 2006 - 00:22:15 UTC
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