Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 18:16:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot blocks Questions (was: superblocks in FFS) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990506181143.16113C-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <199905062216.PAA01771@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 6 May 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I have some questions regarding the new boot blocks used in FreeBSD 3.1: > > > > (1) Can these boot blocks (I assume that they can occupy at most 15 > > sectors because we need one sector for the disklabel in the first 16 > > sectors. BBSIZE == 8192) reside in a filesystem other than the root file > > system? > > They don't reside in the root filesystem, they reside at the beginning > of the slice. > Thanks for the fastest reply I have ever got! For this above point, the beginning of a FreeBSD slice should belong to the cylinder group 0 of the first filesystem in the slice, although this filesystem may not be the root filesystem. Am I right? -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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