From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 21 20:02:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07157 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:02:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA07150 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:02:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08010; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:01:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199801220401.UAA08010@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Jonathan Mini cc: "Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI" , Tom Bartol , Snob Art Genre , Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 1998 17:25:16 PST." <19980121172516.29013@micron.mini.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:01:54 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty 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. Not really, I am think that it will be a great selling tool if we can boot from disk and use a swap partition. Cheers, Amancio