Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 11:13:13 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: pechter@lakewood.com Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot file system idea! Slick Message-ID: <199707220143.LAA25905@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199707220108.VAA07721@i4got.lakewood.com> from Bill Pechter at "Jul 21, 97 09:08:14 pm"
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Bill Pechter stands accused of saying: > > > 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. > > Damn, that's slick. Great IDEA! If the kernel gets blown or corrupted > a simple copy from a dos floppy and it's fixed... ... this is just one small step from "boot from a kernel image on a DOS partition". > Slick. Anyone else like this or is it just me? Yeah, I've always liked it. The biggest argument you will hear against it is "backwards compatability", along with "mandatory MSDOSFS". If/when Robert Nordier ever gets his VFATFS code finished, there might be a good chance of making this happen. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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