Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

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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