git: DEVFS - Add probing of OpenBSD slices

Tobias Weingartner weingart at tepid.org
Tue Sep 29 11:55:40 PDT 2009


On Tuesday, September 29, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
> Thomas Nikolajsen wrote:
> > commit dc6af901d09e888f345682e853de2b81a8b17eb2
> > Author: Thomas Nikolajsen <thomas at dragonflybsd.org>
> > Date:   Mon Sep 21 20:21:00 2009 +0200
> > 
> >     DEVFS - Add probing of OpenBSD slices
> 
> > http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/dc6af901d09e888f345
> 682e853de2b81a8b17eb2
> 
> AFAIR, openbsd disklabels are relative to the start of disk, not the
> start of the slice. Are we sure this works?

Yes, openbsd disklabel describe the whole disk, not the slice they are
contained within.  Basically the MBR is used as a pointer to where the
disklabel is contained, and then the disklabel describes the whole disk
for the OS.

--Toby.





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