Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:45:20 -0400 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bigger boot block size? Message-ID: <200509091145.27676.jkim@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050909071132.GA9121@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <200509081418.47794.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20050909071132.GA9121@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Friday 09 September 2005 03:11 am, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:18:44PM -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > >I have been working on boot2 recently. I faced constant problem > > with boot2 size limitation. Can we have bigger boot block size > > (aka BBSIZE)? In the future, we may have to support different > > file system to boot from and we won't have any space to add the > > support without dropping UFS1 support. > > I don't see why we need a one-size-fits-all boot2. boot2 has to be > installed onto a specific filesystem so there's no reason why we > can't have different boot2 binaries for CD9660, UFS1, UFS2 etc. Huh? boot2 is not installed onto a specific file system and cd9660 is not supported natively AFAIK. '-C' option only lets you mount cd9660 as a root file system. Jung-uk Kim
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