Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:09:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Kurt Seel <kseel@utcorp.com> Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alien filesystem booting? Message-ID: <200001301909.LAA00675@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:00:01 EST." <38931C91.DE2C0FF0@utcorp.com>
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The real problem with MSDOS filesystems is: no device nodes. This is one of those things that will change if/when we get a working devfs. > Excuse me if this sounds unnatural, but ... > Has anyone ever looked at making FBSD boot off of an > msdos filesys? Could the vn driver be used as a root file > system perhaps? Or is long file naming in the msdos > file system in the kernel good enough to use an msdos > file system as root? Am i even asking this on the right > group? > > -- > "The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." > - Bohr > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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