Re: disklabel format incompatible with freebsd-4?

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Basically the issue with the disk label is that it's bigger.  Older 
   FreeBSD disklabels were organized like this:

   [disklabel][unused_space][boot2]

   And are in fact compatible with our new larger disklabel with a few minor
   changes.  HOWEVER, newer FreeBSD disklabels which support UFS and UFS2
   booting are organized like this:

   [disklabel[much_larger_boot2]

   And do not have any free space and are thus not compatible with our new
   larger disklabel :-(.  That's just the way it is.  DragonFly should 
   recognize and support a FreeBSD disklabel but it won't work the other
   way around.  I don't recommend mixing partitions anyway.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>