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Cc: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Bigger boot block size?
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On Thursday 08 September 2005 11:18 am, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> I have been working on boot2 recently.  I faced constant problem with
> boot2 size limitation.  Can we have bigger boot block size (aka
> BBSIZE)?  In the future, we may have to support different file system
> to boot from and we won't have any space to add the support without
> dropping UFS1 support.  In fact, I am using 32-sector boot block and
> I don't see any problem so far.  The patch that I've been using is
> attached.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jung-uk Kim

Well, the obvious problem is that this can't be used on a UFS1 partition 
which has just 8K reserved..
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