>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 pass "foo" from 1:foo(2s1a)kernel in my version of the old boot blocks. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message