From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 9 12:20:42 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069B237B423 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:20:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 20515 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2002 20:20:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Jan 2002 20:20:07 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (root@laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g09KK8K58391; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:20:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@laptop.baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by laptop.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g09KJYU06166; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:19:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <52397.1010571796@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 12:19:34 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall install.c Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Wilko Bulte , Ian Dowse Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Jan-02 Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:52:48 GMT, Ian Dowse wrote: > >> I'm not sure, but something needs to be done before 4.5 anyway. > > That's what I thought when John first warned me about the bootstrap > issues. However, we've now had "no problem here" feedback from at least > one user in each of the i386 and alpha camps. > > Has anyone actually seen the bootstrap code actually cause a problem > with the new fs block/frag sizes? I realize that there's definitely > potential for disaster, but are we going to see it in 4.5-RELEASE if > nothing is changed? Sitting on a ticking time bomb usually isn't good practice. At least one -currnt user on alpha has had a problem and you would if you tried hard enough. Install a machine with a 16/2 root and try to boot the kernel from boot2 directly (instead of the loader) and see what happens. > Ciao, > Sheldon. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message