Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 17:11:32 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bigger boot block size? Message-ID: <20050909071132.GA9121@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200509081418.47794.jkim@FreeBSD.org> References: <200509081418.47794.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:18:44PM -0400, 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. I don't see why we need a one-size-fits-all boot2. boot2 has to be installed onto a specific filesystem so there's no reason why we can't have different boot2 binaries for CD9660, UFS1, UFS2 etc. -- Peter Jeremy
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