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

David Schultz das at FreeBSD.ORG
Sun Apr 20 12:23:22 PDT 2003


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.


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