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Re: MAXBSIZE on VAX



On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:19:04PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> Is there any good reason why MAXBSIZE is still defined as 16384 on VAX in 
> sys/arch/vax/include/param.h? I might not be able to boot off of a 
> filesystem with 32k block size, but I should be able to mount and use it 
> otherwise, no?

I think it would be even bootable. Is this old value to workaround some
adapter specific problems? The commit log is "vague":

revision 1.22
date: 1997-01-11 12:06:17 +0100;  author: ragge;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -2;
branches:  1.22.6;
#define MAXBSIZE to some nice value.


Martin


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