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Date:      Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:38:17 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Bigger boot block size? 
Message-ID:  <8350.1126341497@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:14:37 EDT." <200509091214.41429.jkim@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <200509091214.41429.jkim@FreeBSD.org>, Jung-uk Kim writes:

>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. ;-)

Guys, bsdlabel has no future, we need to migrate to something
that is
	A: 64 capable
	B: supports more than 7/8 partitions
	C: understands that metadata should not be exposed in-band.

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