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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.

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