Hi Matt, On Monday 25 August 2008 17:39, Matthew Dillon wrote: > The main issue is making room for boot0/boot1/boot2. 32 bit disklabels > overload the disklabel and boot storage with 'sector 0', so partitions > starting at 'sector 0' have an overlap issue. > > UFS takes care of this by not writing anything into the first 8K of > its partition. > > HAMMER doesn't do this. HAMMER writes to the first 8K of its > partition.
Is there any reason not to avoid writing in the first 8K? Ext2 on Linux for example leaves the first 4K free, and I intend to do the same, just to leave space for a boot block in case somebody needs it. Regards, Daniel
