Re: HEADS UP: UFS2 now the default creation type on 5.0-CURRENT

From: David Schultz <das_at_FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 12:23:19 -0700
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003, David O'Brien wrote:
> 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/
[...]
> 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.

It might be worth noting the size limit on the root filesystem
somewhere for the unfortunate person who decides not to partition.
Received on Sun Apr 20 2003 - 10:23:22 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:04 UTC