On 14/06/2013, at 18:16, Alban Hertroys <haram...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The problem with this is that then each label tool needs to know about every >> other label format you want to detect for.. > > Isn't it possible to add such information to labels, so that the tools at > least know "who" to ask what they're dealing with? > Not really, the format of the labels is fixed, and there is no standard way they are arranged.
> If there is no guaranteed method of identifying "data" on the disk as a > label, then you can't warn the user in all cases. That's not particularly > helpful for those cases where you can't warn the user. That's possibly a > worse situation than what started this thread. Being warned some of the time seems better than none of the time. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
