On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 06:02:01AM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote: > >> I'm not sure wether disks without labels could be used at all in > >> 4.3bsd. > > >Those memories are pretty fuzzy, but I _think_ it worked this way: > > >4.3 did not have on-disk disklabels. > > 4.3tahoe added the on-disk disklabels for some drivers.
Really? And by 4.4 they'd already become so calcified it was impossible to use a different partition table format natively? I always thought the latter (and all the fun we've had with fdisk tables ever since) was because the existing label format had been around ~forever and was thus deeply baked in. -- David A. Holland [email protected]
