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authormckusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>2002-06-22 22:44:09 +0000
committermckusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>2002-06-22 22:44:09 +0000
commit9180c9b8da975d163fdd9bbd742c646c3a52c153 (patch)
tree7153719de07962bc955c722f6415c609ea65ae11 /sbin/newfs
parent42aadc6a1f154f8803cfaae698ea615b166dce89 (diff)
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Get rid of paranoia that zeros the boot block area as this has
bad effect on existing bootstraps. Submitted by: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/newfs')
-rw-r--r--sbin/newfs/mkfs.c7
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/newfs/mkfs.c b/sbin/newfs/mkfs.c
index 03c76f6..98ae34a 100644
--- a/sbin/newfs/mkfs.c
+++ b/sbin/newfs/mkfs.c
@@ -460,13 +460,6 @@ mkfs(struct partition *pp, char *fsys)
if (Nflag)
exit(0);
/*
- * Zero out the boot area to avoid old superblocks from being
- * found by mistake. Skip over the disklabel area.
- */
- bzero(iobuf, sblock.fs_bsize);
- for (i = 1; i < sblock.fs_sblkno; i += sblock.fs_frag)
- wtfs(fsbtodb(&sblock, i), sblock.fs_bsize, iobuf);
- /*
* Now construct the initial filesystem,
* then write out the super-block.
*/
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