On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:00:37PM -0800, Julian Elischer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[snip]
> In pre-geom days we had a "realhack" (TM) that would fiddle the 
> label if you read it direct from the disk. In other words 
> it "fixed"  it to always look (ummmm relative I think) even  if you
> read it from the raw disk, even if it was in absolute form on the disk.
> 
> Geom (quite correctly) declared this to be a "gross hack" that it would
> not perpetuate. As a result, when you read the raw label you see the
> "uncorrected version". It's possible that disklabel itself
> should be extended to figure out  if the label is absolute of relative
> and DTRT.

Ok, seems not to be over my head. It's confusing to users, that's
the only thing I have to say now. Thank you for explanation.0
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Vallo Kallaste
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