Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 17:35:37 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot.foo madness Message-ID: <199707220035.RAA12240@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199707211831.LAA12016@kithrup.com> from "Sean Eric Fagan" at Jul 21, 97 11:31:53 am
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> You know, there *is* something to be said about the SysVr4 method of having > a "/boot" filesystem, with a simplified FS for it. (The simplified FS [no > subdirectories, no non-file types, no indirect blocks] means that the boot > program can generally be easier.) > > I don't know if we would be able to go this way, though, because it would > require changing the partitioning, which would make doing an upgrade a lot > harder. > > Still, it may be worth thinking about. If you think about it, think about making it a small DOS partition and not a BFS partition. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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