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Subject: Re: Boot file system idea!  Slick
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.

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