From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 5 16:27:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1FE37B405; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA27272; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:27:45 +1000 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 09:28:22 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Subject: Re: alpha boot1 UFS support: HELP NEEDED! In-Reply-To: <55451.1023310717@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: <20020606092529.Q9335-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20020606065434.R8685-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: > >On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > >> Somebody wh > >> use sys/boot/common/ufsread.c before June 19th where the UFS2 patch > >> is scheduled to be committed. > > > >This must not be needed, since old boot blocks must keep working with > >old file systems. > > Does not compute. > > Old bootblocks are on the disks and nobody are changing them so they will > keep working with what they work with. > > This change is necessary if the alpha architecture wants to be able > to boot from a UFS2 filesystem in the future. This change is necessary in the future if someone wants to boot from a UFS2 file system. > The UFS2 patch btw allows the ufsread() function to be compiled in a > "UFS1 only" or "UFS1 or UFS2" configuration. I'm surprised both fit in the i386 version. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message