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On 22 Jan, Bob Bishop wrote:
> At 13:26 22/01/02 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>>Benno Rice <benno@jeamland.net> writes:
>> > This change breaks kernels without softupdates.
>>
>>Why do we even bother supporting that?

> PicoBSD and the like, for a start...

BTW, would it be good for  some situations to have the read-only kernel?
I'd imagine,  the writing  functionality takes plenty  of room,  so some
embedded  situations  can  benefit  greatly. You  make  the  filesystems
outside of  the device and  place the --  presumably much smaller  -- RO
kernel on it...

	-mi


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