Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 23:43:45 -0800 From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com> To: Manfred Antar <null@pozo.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Robert Watson <rwatson@tislabs.com>, re@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Update to UFS2 Superblock Format Message-ID: <200211300743.gAU7hj59078306@beastie.mckusick.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Nov 2002 23:16:51 PST." <5.2.0.9.2.20021129231408.00ac35f8@pozo.com>
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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 23:16:51 -0800 To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com> From: Manfred Antar <null@pozo.com> Subject: Re: Update to UFS2 Superblock Format Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Robert Watson <rwatson@tislabs.com>, re@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <200211300711.gAU7Bt59078123@beastie.mckusick.com> X-ASK-Info: Whitelist match At 11:11 PM 11/29/2002 -0800, Kirk McKusick wrote: >You will have to ask Puol-Henning Kamp, but I do not believe that >he has yet put together a bootstrap for the i386 platform that can >boot from a UFS2 filesystem. As such, I believe that you are >required to have a UFS1 root on the i386 at this time. I have >copied Poul-Henning Kamp so that he can correct me if I am incorrect >on this point. > > Kirk McKusick Ah No wonder, I tried editing the /sys/boot/i386/boot2/Makefile to enable UFS2 bootblock but then disklabel complained that boot2 was too big. I will have to revert to UFS1 Thanks Manfred ================================== || null@pozo.com || || Ph. (415) 681-6235 || ================================== You have hit upon the exact problem. UFS2 has a much bigger area reserved for the boot block, but the programs that set up disk labels and boot blocks don't know about it yet so assume that they have to cram into the much smaller UFS1 boot-block area. Kirk McKusick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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