Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 12:14:37 -0400 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bigger boot block size? Message-ID: <200509091214.41429.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200509081652.56550.peter@wemm.org> References: <200509081418.47794.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <200509081652.56550.peter@wemm.org>
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On Thursday 08 September 2005 07:52 pm, Peter Wemm wrote: > 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.. Sigh... But bsdlabel(8) should be able to handle this case when '-B' option is given and first partition of the slice is UFS1, i. e., we keep 'historical' boot1/boot2 for a while and drop the support later. ;-) Jung-uk Kim
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