Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 23:16:51 -0800
To: Kirk McKusick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Manfred Antar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Update to UFS2 Superblock Format
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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At 11:11 PM 11/29/2002 -0800, Kirk McKusick wrote:
>You will have to ask Puol-Henning Kamp, but I do not believe that
>he has yet put together a bootstrap for the i386 platform that can
>boot from a UFS2 filesystem. As such, I believe that you are
>required to have a UFS1 root on the i386 at this time. I have
>copied Poul-Henning Kamp so that he can correct me if I am incorrect
>on this point.
>
> Kirk McKusick
Ah
No wonder, I tried editing the /sys/boot/i386/boot2/Makefile
to enable UFS2 bootblock but then disklabel complained that
boot2 was too big. I will have to revert to UFS1
Thanks
Manfred
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You have hit upon the exact problem. UFS2 has a much bigger area
reserved for the boot block, but the programs that set up disk labels
and boot blocks don't know about it yet so assume that they have to
cram into the much smaller UFS1 boot-block area.
Kirk McKusick
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