> >Correct. I was looking for a field in the disklabel that I could spam > >with a suitable number based on the time from the RTC, and I'd then > > There isn't one. Especially when there is no disklabel or a read-only > disklabel. > > >> Again, same objections... :-) > > > >Same solutions. Plus we'd be likely to place some metadata somewhere > >on a FAT filesystem, so it'd be trivial to put such a field there. > > Similar objections. Disks should be write protected to inhibit spam :-).
I'm happy to entertain any alternate solutions. > I pass "foo" from 1:foo(2s1a)kernel in my version of the old boot blocks. And you determine "foo" how? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
