Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 07:19:05 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM> Cc: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> Subject: Re: bin/51619 Message-ID: <77213.1052371145@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 May 2003 15:29:13 PDT." <200305072229.h47MTDTh024656@beastie.mckusick.com>
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In message <200305072229.h47MTDTh024656@beastie.mckusick.com>, Kirk McKusick wr ites: >At one time I had the suggested change that you made in bin/51619 >in the FreeBSD-5.0 newfs program. The problem with that change is >that the bootstrap on some architectures now exceeds 8K which means >that instead of zeroing an old superblock you destroy the boot code. Actually we have managed to get it down to 8k on all architectures as far as I belive. Anyway, if we check that it is a valid superblock before zeroing it, I don't think we will put any boot code in harms way. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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