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.

-- 
Peter Jeremy


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