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Date:      Sat, 30 Nov 2002 20:49:47 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, Manfred Antar <null@pozo.com>, FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, Robert Watson <rwatson@tislabs.com>, re@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Update to UFS2 Superblock Format 
Message-ID:  <21227.1038685787@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Nov 2002 11:37:52 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211301133440.89415-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211301133440.89415-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju
lian Elischer writes:

>isn't it about time we got away from puting the bootblocks in a
>filesystem partition? 

I actually reached that conclusion back when we realized that the UFS2
bootblocks did not fit the 8k magic zone.

From the next branch on -current, it is my intent to not install
BSD labels anymore, but switch to GPT instead, (possibly encapsulated
in an BSD MBR slice for legacy systems).

But lets burn that bridge once we have crossed it.

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