Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:50:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: darrylo@sr.hp.com Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, phk@critter.tfs.com, ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. Message-ID: <199609232150.OAA02856@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199609232101.AA000732487@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> from "Darryl Okahata" at Sep 23, 96 02:01:26 pm
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> This may not be sufficient. The various inodes and directory > blocks also have to be below 1024. > > Here's something that Terry Lambert wrote up some time back. It > gives the various and sundry reasons (and there are many!) for the 1024 > cylinder limit. [ Terry: would you mind if I cleaned it up and > submitted it to the handbook? ] Feel free. I know of at least two places that are still sending me occasional bug reports on the patchkit software, which they are using for their own OEM distributions. I keep telling them to change over to SUP. 8-). Moral: feel free to use anything that you think is useful. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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