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Date:      Tue, 08 Jan 2002 11:57:03 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall install.c 
Message-ID:  <47888.1010483823@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2002 21:12:21 GMT." <200201072112.aa71517@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> 

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On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 21:12:21 GMT, Ian Dowse wrote:

> >Hmm, perhaps sysinstall is overriding newfs in stable still?  We
> >should see if anyone can reproduce this on -current as well.  The
> >boot1 code does seem to assume 8192 block size from my reading of it,
> >though I'm not 100% sure.
> 
> In fact, this may be a problem on the i386 too. There seems to be an
> assumption in sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c that the filesystem block
> size is no greater than 8k:

Okay, now you're scaring me.

What should I do?  Should I leave the new newfs defaults intact for
4.5-RC1 so we can get feedback, or should I just back out the newfs
defaults changes and play it safe for 4.5-RELEASE?

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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