Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:06:48 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Wiktor Niesiobedzki <bsd@w.evip.pl> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM oddity with verbose boot Message-ID: <6988.1071839208@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:53:16 %2B0100." <20031219125316.GB3682@mail.evip.pl>
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In message <20031219125316.GB3682@mail.evip.pl>, Wiktor Niesiobedzki writes: >Ofcourse, it finds, but what makes me worry, is how there could be a valid bsd >label, if there is a valid UFS2 superblock? >If I understand correctly, in first 8192 bytes of partition are at the same >time: >- UFS2 superblock >- BSD label The UFS2 superblock can be located four different places, at 0, at 8k, 64k or 256k into the partition. The BSDlabel is at 512 bytes offset (on i386). -- 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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