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From: akiyama@kme.mei.co.jp (Shunsuke Akiyama)
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Subject: Re: Drive with 1024 byte logical blocks
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b a <barry> writes:

> 	The changes that John Gumb and I came up with modify
> 	far less code then this patch. Is this patch fixing
> 	extra problems that we missed?

That was my version of UFS with 512/1024/2048 byte/sector media patch.
It's support VM fix using mmapped access, but not support DOS-FS.

> 	Further you have not patched fdisk or newfs that seem to
> 	be critical to getting a ufs file system onto a disk.

I'm only using /sbin/disklabel, but never got a problem.
/sbin/fdisk ..., humm, it's not worked for 1024/2048 byte/sector
media.
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Shunsuke Akiyama
Kyushu Matsushita Electric Co., Ltd. Fukuoka, Japan.
akiyama@kme.mei.co.jp