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To: "Andrew L. Neporada" <andr@dgap.mipt.ru>
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Subject: Re: maximum mfsroot size limit
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At 18:29 16/02/2004, Andrew L. Neporada wrote:
>I have a problem with very large mfsroot filesystems in FreeBSD-4.9.
>100Mb mfsroot fs boots and works fine, but 128Mb fs with the same
>content cause immediate reboot after 'Booting kernel in xxx seconds'
>line.

   Increase the value of NKPT in src/sys/i386/include/pmap.h.

Colin Percival