From: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
To: Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 64KB "boot sector" gap
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 12:01:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121203200136.GC1377@lenny.home.zabbo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B41E960E-A16B-4856-AFFE-FC5C99DDC7D5@colorremedies.com>
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 12:34:06AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> When creating a btrfs volume with mkfs.btrfs, I'm noticing that the
> first 64KB are completely blank. Is this gap expressly intended for
> installing a boot manager/loader?
If you want some historical reading check out the 'BTRFS partition
usage...' messages in:
https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/btrfs-devel/2008-February/
- z
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-03 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-03 7:34 64KB "boot sector" gap Chris Murphy
2012-12-03 7:52 ` Rock Lee
2012-12-03 7:54 ` Chris Murphy
2012-12-03 16:08 ` Chris Mason
2012-12-03 20:01 ` Zach Brown [this message]
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