From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 21 20:39:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA09930 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:39:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from d198-232.uoregon.edu (d198-232.uoregon.edu [128.223.198.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA09891 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:39:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mini@d198-232.uoregon.edu) Received: (from mini@localhost) by d198-232.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA13381; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:38:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19980121203832.14278@micron.mini.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:38:32 -0800 From: Jonathan Mini To: Amancio Hasty Cc: Jonathan Mini , "Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI" , Tom Bartol , Snob Art Genre , Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: One-floppy FreBSD + rich networking Reply-To: Jonathan Mini References: <19980121172516.29013@micron.mini.net> <199801220401.UAA08010@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199801220401.UAA08010@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 08:01:54PM -0800 X-files: The Truth is Out There Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I'm a big fan of "X terminal on a disk." err... ahhh... CD. Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying: > > 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 -- Jonathan Mini Ingenious Productions Software Development P.O. Box 5693, Eugene, Or. 97405 "A child of five could understand this! Quick -- Fetch me a child of five."