Bigger boot block size?
Peter Jeremy
peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Fri Sep 9 00:11:37 PDT 2005
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.
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Peter Jeremy
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