From owner-freebsd-small Sun Jan 30 11: 1: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (15-131.012.popsite.net [198.31.84.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 977D314EBC for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:00:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00675; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:09:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001301909.LAA00675@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Kurt Seel Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alien filesystem booting? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:00:01 EST." <38931C91.DE2C0FF0@utcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:09:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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