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Date:      Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:56:10 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jan Srzednicki <winfried@student.agh.edu.pl>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   UFS2 and disklabel fstype
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211241918100.13314-100000@student.uci.agh.edu.pl>

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Hello there,

As UFS2 is not backward compatible at all, I wonder why the old fstype in
disklabel is being kept:

#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  a:  1024000        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384 64008   # (Cyl.    0 - 63*)
  c: 18610326        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 1158*)
  d: 17586326  1024000    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552   # (Cyl.   63*- 1158*)

This is a disklabel of my newly installed -DP2 system. Partition "a" is
formatted as UFS, while "d" is UFS2.

I wonder, is there any reason for not distincting these filesystems on
disklabel level? Would specyfying different fstype for UFS2 (whatever you
call it then) break something? It's not a real problem, but in some cases
may confuse someone.

I've done some googling, but didn't find any discussion on this topic, so
I'm writing here.

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