disc labels on 4.3 (vax)

der Mouse mouse at mcgill-vision.UUCP
Fri Dec 2 09:31:02 AEST 1988


In article <498 at gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>, aw at doc.ic.ac.uk (Andrew Weeks) writes:
> We have recently received a new 4.3 Vax release from MtXinu, which
> contains a disk-labelling system (probably that from 4.3-tahoe).
> [...] but then the label must take up some space, where can it get it
> except at the expense of files?

The label won't take more than fifty or a hundred bytes, and for
something that small there's lots of room floating around, like at the
end of the superblock, or maybe inode 0 or 1....

					der Mouse

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