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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:29:40 +1100
From: Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] Boot failure: msdos pushes in front of reiserfs
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:21:15PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> Hmmm mke2fs seems to always zero out the first 1024, except on sparcs (when
> ZAP_BOOT_BLOCK not defined).  I thought alphas stored the partition table on
> the first block of the first partition as well, and that we didn't want to
> zero it then.

*nitpick*

I think that's Sun... Alpha's use either BSD or MSDOS tables, neither
of which do that...

Andrew

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