On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:21:13PM +0000, Martin J. Laubach wrote:
> | > NetBSD over a previously NetBSD-raided drive, and the initial boot
> | > after installation got very confused because it thought the filesystem
> | > was still raided?
> |  
> |  For FFSv2 it won't and the raid header will be intact.
> |  So maybe the raid magic number needs adding to the list that get zapped.
> 
>   So instead of hard coding a gazillion magic sector numbers
> to be zapped, why does newfs not just take the easy way and zero
> out the first 255 or so sectors?

Because they contain the boot code.

	David

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