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Date:      Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:31:03 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        "Christopher G. Petrilli" <petrilli@amber.org>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New microdrives from IBM
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810071925400.21617-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <19981007100029.30754@amber.org>

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On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Christopher G. Petrilli wrote:

> I think it's extreemly important to focus on a GOOD flash file
> system---I'd settle for something a'la RT-11 and contiguous
> files---that doesn't have huge impact on flash re-write lifetimes.  

Hmmm.. What's an RT-11?

> BTW, for those worrying about cramming it onto a 1.44Mb floppy for
> reasons of flash size, I went looking, and it's damned hard to find
> anything under 2MB of flash any more, and many many many boards support
> up to 72MB of FlashDisk.  While I understand the need to conservce
> space---if not the need to spell correctly <wink>---I think that it is
> important to focus on what the embedded world needs, and make sure we
> can STRIP it to fit on a floppy, but not that we obsess over making
> sure it fits in all forms.

Good points!

This touches one very important issue: currently used way to build the
target picobsd system is as inflexible and inconvenient as it could ever
get.. :-( We need _some_ way of making it more modular, and easier to
modify, without requiring a total recompile each time... Any ideas are
welcome (about half a year ago I tried to create a picobsd version which
used separate binaries and shared libs... and failed miserably - the whole
thing was much bigger and consumed much more memory...).

Andrzej Bialecki

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