Bigger boot block size?
Peter Wemm
peter at wemm.org
Thu Sep 8 16:52:58 PDT 2005
On Thursday 08 September 2005 11:18 am, 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. In fact, I am using 32-sector boot block and
> I don't see any problem so far. The patch that I've been using is
> attached.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jung-uk Kim
Well, the obvious problem is that this can't be used on a UFS1 partition
which has just 8K reserved..
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