Re: Bigger boot block size?

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 09/10/05

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    To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:38:17 +0200

    In message <200509091214.41429.jkim@FreeBSD.org>, Jung-uk Kim writes:

    >Sigh... But bsdlabel(8) should be able to handle this case when '-B'
    >option is given and first partition of the slice is UFS1, i. e., we
    >keep 'historical' boot1/boot2 for a while and drop the support
    >later. ;-)

    Guys, bsdlabel has no future, we need to migrate to something
    that is
            A: 64 capable
            B: supports more than 7/8 partitions
            C: understands that metadata should not be exposed in-band. 

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