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Date:      Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:28:22 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: alpha boot1 UFS support: HELP NEEDED! 
Message-ID:  <20020606092529.Q9335-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <55451.1023310717@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <20020606065434.R8685-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:
> >On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >
> >> Somebody wh
> >> use sys/boot/common/ufsread.c before June 19th where the UFS2 patch
> >> is scheduled to be committed.
> >
> >This must not be needed, since old boot blocks must keep working with
> >old file systems.
>
> Does not compute.
>
> Old bootblocks are on the disks and nobody are changing them so they will
> keep working with what they work with.
>
> This change is necessary if the alpha architecture wants to be able
> to boot from a UFS2 filesystem in the future.

This change is necessary in the future if someone wants to boot from a
UFS2 file system.

> The UFS2 patch btw allows the ufsread() function to be compiled in a
> "UFS1 only" or "UFS1 or UFS2" configuration.

I'm surprised both fit in the i386 version.

Bruce


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