From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 24 10:56:15 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 2897737B401 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:56:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from student.uci.agh.edu.pl (student.uci.agh.edu.pl [149.156.98.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 088D843E3B for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:56:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winfried@student.agh.edu.pl) Received: by student.uci.agh.edu.pl (Postfix, from userid 25828) id 94C1E64624; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:56:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by student.uci.agh.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE256F609 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:56:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:56:10 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Srzednicki X-X-Sender: winfried@student.uci.agh.edu.pl To: current@freebsd.org Subject: UFS2 and disklabel fstype Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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. -- -- wrzask --= v =-- Winfried --=-- GG# 3838383 --=-- JS500-RIPE -- -- w@dream.vg --- w@303.krakow.pl --===-- http://violent.dream.vg/ --- --=< Ride the wild wind - push the envelope, don't sit on the fence, --- -- Ride the wild wind - live life on the razor's edge! >=-- Queen -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message