From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 21 17:26:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23426 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:26:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from d198-232.uoregon.edu (d198-232.uoregon.edu [128.223.198.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23388 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:25:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mini@d198-232.uoregon.edu) Received: (from mini@localhost) by d198-232.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA13191; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:25:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19980121172516.29013@micron.mini.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:25:16 -0800 From: Jonathan Mini To: "Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI" Cc: Tom Bartol , Snob Art Genre , Amancio Hasty , Andrzej Bialecki , Jonathan Mini , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking Reply-To: Jonathan Mini References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI on Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 04:57:53PM -0800 X-files: The Truth is Out There Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI stands accused of saying: > Couldn't this be overcome by including DOS FS support and using some > space out of C:\TEMP . Swapfiles could be accomplished in the sameway > with vnode support. (Leo's getting Largerrrr!) Two problems : you loose the advantages of a read-only setup if you use a hard drive :) And Secondly, msdosfs doesn't have permissions. Not to mention that if it did, you could still reboot into DOS and midify the files. This is not secure. If you want to use HD space, just make a FFS partition. -- Jonathan Mini Ingenious Productions Software Development P.O. Box 5693, Eugene, Or. 97405 "A child of five could understand this! Quick -- Fetch me a child of five."