bin/51619

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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.

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