Re: Bigger boot block size?

From: Scott Long (scottl_at_samsco.org)
Date: 09/10/05

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    Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:47:52 -0600
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>

    Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

    > 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.
    >

    Yes, and you've been waving your hands about this for a long time =-)
    GPT is a nice sucessor, but our support for it is not ready for prime
    time, IMHO. What is required to actually make the switch:

    1) appropriate support in all stages of the bootloader for i386 and
    amd64.
    2) appropriate support in sysinstall for all platforms.
    3) docs that describe GPT on FreeBSD, how to install a system to it, and
    how to upgrade a system to it.
    4) visual editor for GPT. You might laugh that bsdlabel/disklabel only
    uses vi, but it's worlds better than what the gpt utility provides now.

    Scott
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