Re: Bigger boot block size?

From: Peter Wemm (peter_at_wemm.org)
Date: 09/09/05

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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:52:56 -0700

    On Thursday 08 September 2005 11:18 am, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
    > I have been working on boot2 recently. I faced constant problem with
    > boot2 size limitation. Can we have bigger boot block size (aka
    > BBSIZE)? In the future, we may have to support different file system
    > to boot from and we won't have any space to add the support without
    > dropping UFS1 support. In fact, I am using 32-sector boot block and
    > I don't see any problem so far. The patch that I've been using is
    > attached.
    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    > Jung-uk Kim

    Well, the obvious problem is that this can't be used on a UFS1 partition
    which has just 8K reserved.. 

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Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
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