From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Sep 23 14:54:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA24266 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA24227 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA02856; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:50:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199609232150.OAA02856@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. To: darrylo@sr.hp.com Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:50:57 -0700 (MST) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, phk@critter.tfs.com, ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org In-Reply-To: <199609232101.AA000732487@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> from "Darryl Okahata" at Sep 23, 96 02:01:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.