In message <200305072229.h47MTDTh024656_at_beastie.mckusick.com>, Kirk McKusick wr ites: >At one time I had the suggested change that you made in bin/51619 >in the FreeBSD-5.0 newfs program. The problem with that change is >that the bootstrap on some architectures now exceeds 8K which means >that instead of zeroing an old superblock you destroy the boot code. Actually we have managed to get it down to 8k on all architectures as far as I belive. Anyway, if we check that it is a valid superblock before zeroing it, I don't think we will put any boot code in harms way. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_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.Received on Wed May 07 2003 - 20:19:08 UTC
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