Re: Bigger boot block size?

From: Peter Jeremy (peterjeremy_at_optushome.com.au)
Date: 09/09/05

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To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org>

    On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:18:44PM -0400, 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.

    I don't see why we need a one-size-fits-all boot2. boot2 has to be
    installed onto a specific filesystem so there's no reason why we can't
    have different boot2 binaries for CD9660, UFS1, UFS2 etc. 

    -- 
Peter Jeremy
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