On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stefan =?iso-8859-
> 1?Q?E=DFer?= writes:
> >Seems that mdmfs stopped working recently (probably because
> >of GEOM related changes). One possible fix is to label the
> >md and newfs the thusly created c partition.
> >
> >This requires running /sbin/disklabel, which didn't have an
> >entry in paths.h.
> >
> >Any objections against me committing the follwoing fixes to
> >-current ?
>
> Yes, please don't.
>
> We should not revert to putting BSD labels on everything.
>
> I'll find the root cause and fix that instead, it's probably
> fall-out from my ioctl change.

Disk labels are required by the not unused fsck_ffs utility to search
for alternate superblocks.

Bruce
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