On Jan 30, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Simon Burge wrote: > Matt Thomas wrote: > >> On Jan 28, 2011, at 3:38 PM, matthew green wrote: >> >>> >>>> disklabel.h should export nothing to userland and values userland >>>> needs should be obtained via sysctl. >>>> >>>> I've been asking this question of various developers for a while. >>> >>> how do i create a disklabel on a file system image as a normal >>> user a non-netbsd host with this method? >> >> But that would be a hosted tool and that's a different case than >> a native tool. > > Where would the hosted tool get that information from? If it's from a > MD header file we're back to where we started...
Why? hosted != native. I don't expect a tool to be built on linux to know where to get a disklabel from. I do expect the native on NetBSD to know how to get the disklabel location for the current machine it's running on from sysctl and not a header file.
