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Date:      Sun, 20 Apr 2003 11:19:49 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: UFS2 now the default creation type on 5.0-CURRENT
Message-ID:  <20030420181949.GA53778@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030420112741.16891g-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <5.2.1.1.2.20030420080745.00a80490@pozo.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030420112741.16891g-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 11:31:21AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> There were initially some size glitches because UFS2 required additional
> 64-bit operations in the boot record, and that exceeded the space at the
> front of the file system, but I believe that has now been resolved.

s/resolved/hacked around/

RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/common/ufsread.c,v
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revision 1.11
date: 2003-02-25 00:10:20;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -0
Only apply rev 1.10 (which hacks around the i386 boot2 being too big for
both ufs1 and ufs2 support) on i386.
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revision 1.10
date: 2003-02-24 04:57:01;  author: mckusick;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -0
Revert to old (broken for over 1.5Tb filesystems) version of cgbase
so that boot loader once again will fit.

Sponsored by:   DARPA & NAI Labs.
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