From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 30 11:50: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB16637B401; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:50:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5E143EDE; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAUJnlfN021228; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 20:49:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Julian Elischer Cc: Kirk McKusick , Manfred Antar , FreeBSD current users , Robert Watson , re@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Update to UFS2 Superblock Format In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:37:52 PST." Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 20:49:47 +0100 Message-ID: <21227.1038685787@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Ju lian Elischer writes: >isn't it about time we got away from puting the bootblocks in a >filesystem partition? I actually reached that conclusion back when we realized that the UFS2 bootblocks did not fit the 8k magic zone. From the next branch on -current, it is my intent to not install BSD labels anymore, but switch to GPT instead, (possibly encapsulated in an BSD MBR slice for legacy systems). But lets burn that bridge once we have crossed it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message