Re: sysisnt disallowing FFSv2 (patch)

Martin Husemann <[email protected]> Wed, 9 Aug 2017 10:41:07 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 07:11:56PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Functionally changes sysinst for the following archs:
> acorn26, amiga, atari, bebox, cats, dummy, evbmips, evbppc, evbsh3,
> ews4800mips, hp300, hpcarm, hpcmips, hpcsh, luna68k, mac68k, mipsco,
> mvme68k, news68k, newsmips, ofppc, playstation2, prep, vax

It is slightly more involved if we want to disallow users from creating
unbootable setups. For example vax's first stage boot loader has the
ffsv2 ops commented out - I guess for size reasons.

Also tiny disks don't benefit a lot from FFSv2.

Martin