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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk>
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Subject: Re: using only DOS filesystem
To: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com (Jeffrey Hsu)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 00:20:30 -0700 (PDT)
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> 
> Here's something to try on a lark:  boot and run FreeBSD using only
> native DOS file partitions, possibly creating a ufs file partition
> in a large DOS file w/ the vn pseudo-driver.

Been there, done that.

You make a kernel with a MFS as root, and you can do it without
any problems.

Performance SUCKS!

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp