Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 22:59:20 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bootstrapping vinum root Message-ID: <20030804225920.B78778@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <16174.49878.294049.177343@canoe.velocet.net>; from dgilbert@dclg.ca on Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:32:22PM -0400 References: <20030804140437.W12950@woozle.rinet.ru> <20030804105004.GM95375@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030804160017.E12950@woozle.rinet.ru> <16174.49878.294049.177343@canoe.velocet.net>
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As David Gilbert wrote: > How many blocks are needed for MBR + bootable stuff? I'm usually leaving 16 blocks free. I think 8 would be enough since vinum also leaves 4 KB free by itself. However, on UFS2, a lot more space is left free, apparently someone is long-term planning for larger bootstraps. ;-) It would be wise if vinum could adhere to the same scheme as UFS2 in future. See the comment in /sys/ufs/ffs/fs.h. > How tricky would it be to make sysinstall do this? Not too hard, but then, sysinstall itself is just ugly to touch, regardless of whether you're going to add something simple or something complex. ;-) -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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